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...fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts-for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations...
...such truce could become a trap. They recalled in particular how the Chinese Communists, routed in the battle of Szepingkai in 1946 and on the brink of losing all of Manchuria to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, pressured U.S. mediators into calling for a standstill, then used the precious time to regroup. The Chinese later exploited the Korean peace talks at Panmunjom, which dragged on for two years at the cost of 80,000 American casualties...
...Precious Instant. This week the U.S. psychological-warfare team-to which Nguyen Van Be is indeed a hero-will begin distributing some 7,000,000 leaflets and 100,000 posters in both South and North Viet Nam showing Nguyen Van Be posing beside Communist newspapers headlining his fictitious martyrdom. More than one-third of the leaflets will be dropped over North Viet Nam, where the government recently erected a statue in downtown Hanoi showing Comrade Be holding his mine overhead at the precious instant of immortality...
Bolt of Neon. There was precious little romance this time. Nureyev, attired only in white tights, was a rambunctious Adam in his opening solo, kicking up his heels like a colt let out to pasture. But Paradise is not complete until Adam lies down to rest-whereupon Eve is born, costumed in a white plastic minidress. The two embrace in curious, mandala-like configurations, testing each other like momentary sculptors of flesh...
...procedure based on the premise that a loss of some portion of its students would be catastrophic. The other argument--that people in college deserve to be there--is beside the point. In no sense is it moral to use the draft to separate those who are too precious to be sent to war from those considered acceptable cannon fodder. Of course, there are times when a nation must ignore moral principles and worry about self-preservation. Now is not such a time. Because of its clear social inequity, the 2-S deferment should be discarded...