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...another in- -terview with American University Professor Amos Perlmutter: "The Southern Command collapsed completely in the first two days," said Sharon. "Bar-Lev [Lieut. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev, the former chief of staff who was mobilized and given a major command in the Sinai's Southern Sector] did not perceive the time element. He believed that the Egyptian forces could be defeated by attrition...
...deserted. I believe that there will be an offensive early next year," he says. "Hue is a military target and a political target. Saigon is a political target. Their goal of a 'third Viet Nam' [a separate Communist state in the South] is very real." Although his sector is seemingly quiet, the war is real here too. Noting the endless rolls of concertina wire surrounding the Trung Ngan bunker, I ask: "General, what are you going to do with all that barbed wire when the war is over?" Nghi smiles thinly. "You tell me when the war will...
...problem does not lie in what we use but how we use it. A large sector of the U.S. population uses energy in unnecessary ways--to open their garage doors, cut their meat, brush their teeth. They believe they deserve any new machine which will conserve their own effort. Advertising emphasizes ease in the promotion of each new appliance...
City Controller Beame, 67 years old and New York's first Jewish mayor, has been involved in city fiscal management for over 27 years. He was heavily supported by the business sector of the city, and received most of his votes from the white, moderate, and middle-class segment of the electorate...
Avoiding Disaster. Although the details were still obscured by censorship, the bridgehead made by an Israeli armored force across the southern sector of the canal may rank as the most brilliant military feat in the country's short but tempestuous history. In the end, Egypt may well have agreed to a ceasefire because it realized that to continue fighting would lead to another disaster...