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...were in his living room--and after 60 productions with the Theatre Company it might as well be. Set designer John Thornton has divided the thrust stage with a diagonal ramp into an upper and lower platform--everything from marching squads to jungle fights and a Saigon saloon fit on it so it must be good...
...North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government in the South is that the Thieu regime must give way to a neutral coalition government which will then supervise elections in South Vietnam. But the United States has consistently stipulated that elections take place under the aegis of the current Saigon regime, a situation that would amount to no genuine elections...
...clear that Hanoi and the PRG cannot accept the central demand of Washington's position, and it is evident that the position is an unfair and inflexible one. Yet President Nixon and his advisors have decided that their holding the Saigon regime in place is essential to America's credibility as a global power, and they have decided that the regime must be upheld at any cost. Invasions and ceaseless bombing of Cambodia and Laos, the drastic and brutal air strikes on North Vietnam in late 1970 and 1971, and a grueling three-year pacification program in South Vietnam...
...announced late last week that the bombing would not stop until North Vietnam began "serious" negotiations with the United States. The statements by Laird and Porter have thus placed Hanoi in the position of having to beg the United States to stop bombing North Vietnam--or to overthrow the Saigon regime and forcibly dislodge the U.S. military machine from all Indochina so that further bombing is impossible...
Nonetheless, the unmistakable objective of the current North Vietnamese drive is the overthrow of the Saigon regime. And if events in South Vietnam should soon reach a stage where Washington feels it must act decisively to save the regime, even at the expense of the Moscow summit, we must brace for the possibility of further American escalation in the war. There are several possibilities for what form this new escalation might take: sustained bombing of North Vietnam above the 20th Parallel, air raids on Hanoi and Haiphong, the destruction of North Vietnam's irrigation dikes, or the use of tactical...