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...demand a total cessation of U.S. air strikes and all other acts of war against the North (presumably including naval bombardments and artillery shells lobbed across the Demilitarized Zone) before they will consent to talk about "other matters." In its turn, the U.S. will insist on a quid pro quo under the San Antonio formula that Johnson enunciated last September. As Defense Secretary Clark Clifford defined it, the prescription calls for the U.S. to stop the bombing if North Viet Nam indicates that it will continue "to transport the normal amount of goods, munitions and men to South Viet...
...come to Washington to retain the status quo in the mortgage market," said Multimillionaire San Francisco Mortgage Banker Raymond H. Lapin, 49, when he took over the $28,000-a-year presidency of the Federal National Mortgage Association nine months ago. What was needed, he said was nothing less than "changes in structure, policy and objectives" of the nation's largest mortgage facility. Skeptics smiled wisely, knowing that such grand plans are often as not pulverized by the ponderous machinery of Government. Yet last week, when Lapin ordered a radical change in the way FNMA conducts its business, there...
...defending the constitutional status quo, though, Trudeau best reveals the modernity of his thinking. He sees nationalism in French Canada as having replaced the Church as the force of social counter-revolution. Several years ago he described the Quebec separatist movement as "the work of a powerless petit-bourgeois minority afraid to be left behind by the twentieth century revolution," and it is clear that he has now extended the analysis to include nationalists such as Mr. Johnson...
...social sphere. A nationwide attack on poverty or discrimination may be doomed to failure, but an assault on a specific or local ill may very well prove to be successful. A few of the militants, points out Harvard Government Professor Martin Kilson, are discovering the meaning of quid pro quo-and gaining meaningful concessions from the white community with promises to work for peace in the ghetto...
...waiting. ARVN soldiers did little night patrolling, fought the war on a five-day week, with officers whipping off to Saigon for the weekend. In the populous Mekong Delta, local ARVN commanders were suspected of occasional "accommodations" with their Viet Cong counterparts, aimed at preserving the status quo and holding the fighting to a minimum. In this area Abrams sees notable improvement. Of ARVN's 149 maneuver battalions, he regards only nine as really unsatisfactory any longer; he rates 41 superior and the rest satisfactory. In the Delta, the new corps commander, General Nguyen Due Thang, has mounted nearly...