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What Americans fear more than anything else is a repeat of Viet Nam. This proposal would effectively eliminate such a possibility, while ensuring that our nation is adequately prepared for a genuine defense emergency. Our volunteer forces would then be available to man the outposts...
...military replacements, many of the strikers themselves first learned their trade in the service, typically during the Viet Nam era. Some contend that the shift to civilian duties was difficult for them. Said Poli, somewhat menacingly, about the fill-in system last week: "I hope that nothing happens." But if it does, he suggested, "the Government is responsible...
Habib's combination of patience, discretion, endurance and shrewd calculation flowered in 1968, when he was appointed No. 3 man at the frustrating Paris peace talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam, where Harriman was chief negotiator. Cyrus Vance, Habib's immediate superior and later Secretary of State, recalls Habib's meticulous allnight preparations of U.S. positions. The observant diplomat once advised his American colleagues to look under the bargaining table while dealing with the impassive North Vietnamese, since "you can tell when they're unsure of themselves by the way they cross and uncross...
...team whose predominantly white composition (just one black) all too clearly reflects its government's views on racial segregation-and inflames controversy far beyond the realm of sport. Demonstrating against South Africa's policy of apartheid, New Zealanders last week staged their worst civil disorders since the Viet Nam War. A crowd of 3,000 tried to storm Parliament, while others occupied bridges, fought with police, and dumped broken glass on playing fields...
...major virtue, which appeared less important in 1962 than it does now, was a sense of proportion; he had an instinctive knowledge of what could be done and, more important, what could not be done. As far back as 1951, for example, when the French were fighting in Viet Nam, he foresaw nothing but swamps. "I'm convinced that no military victory is possible in that kind of theater," he noted. In 1955 members of his Cabinet predicted imminent war with Red China in the Formosa Strait. Ike knew better: "I have so often been through these periods...