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...Vietnamese had moved their MIG fighters south toward the Demilitarized Zone in anticipation of a U.S. strike. The Air Force and Navy jets attacked only after the MIGs returned north. The U.S. said that the targets were limited to antiaircraft and surface-to-air missile sites, though some nearby troop concentrations and supply dumps were probably hit as well. Hanoi asserted that the Americans had hit a prisoner-of-war camp north of the North Vietnamese capital, wounding several captured U.S. pilots; a number of civilians were killed, Hanoi added. Hanoi also claimed to have shot down five U.S. jets...
They are not exactly Norman Rockwell's image of Boy Scouts, but then they do not inhabit a Rockwellian America. The 60 members of Boy Scout Troop 503 live in a ghetto of South Brooklyn, and they call themselves the "Black and Puerto Rican Stoners" to indicate that they are as hard and as solid as stone. Their uniforms are Army-type fatigues, combat boots and green berets. In addition to being "trustworthy" and "loyal," the Stoners promise to "have ethnic pride," and they pledge allegiance to the flag with clenched fists over their hearts. Their oath...
Last week's bombing raids signal jut the opposite-much more clearly than the Cambodian invasion. The master plan, according to Washington sources, calls for a continued presence of a smaller troop commitment over the next several years, bolstered by increasing and wider bombing pressure to keep the North Vietnamese "off balance," The war will not end and the best Nixon can hope for is that less Americans will die there and the eyes of the public will turn away...
...strongly challenged, he will have conditioned America to be more accommodating toward more such "limited" raids when, not if, they come. The only viable alternative must be to reconstitute the anti-war movement again, with the specific goal of forcing Nixon to clarify his intentions beyond the May troop cuts and leading the American resistance to his policies. There can be only one demand: unilateral and immediate withdrawal of all American troops and support...
...plan. If "adult" evening programming was immature, why not allow it to rerun during the children's hours, where it might meet its intellectual level? Thus the Flintstones' "Pa's a Sap" approach now runs every day. Bewitched is a daily staple; so are The Beverly Hillbillies and F Troop. Today the rerun is no longer a method of picking up the small change; it is programmed into children's video. An animated segment costs the networks about $60,000. The cost is amortized over a period of two yearswhich includes five reruns. Anything after that is gravy...