Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said Friday that if the disputed 1968 "understandings" for halting the bombing of North Vietnam are "thrown out, then the bombing of the North would eventually follow."
According to some specialists, a resumption of the bombing could be to the political benefit of North Vietnam as it would stiffen the siege mentality of North Vietnam's people and increase world and U. S. pressure on President Nixon to meet Hanoi's terms for ending the war.
In other developments, the Defense Department announced a January draft call of 17,000 men. The call is the highest since April and 4,500 more than last January.
MR. NIXON'S horrid ruse has, for the moment, succeeded. Nearly a month after the bombing and armed incursion into North Vietnam, most of America remains quiet, convinced that these macabre acts are somehow connected with his professed concern for a few hundred prisoners of war.
Yet on another level, the U. S. government is having its share of troubles in Southeast Asia. It's not that its conduct of the war has been remarkably dishonest and brutal; such petty thoughts have hardly been known to wear on the consciences of our national leaders. The problem...