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...then he stopped his principal attacker, a long-haired student in an army jacket, glasses, and jeans named Tom Ward, and forced him to answer the question, "Do you really care about what motivates me?" Ward said yes, quietly, and Teller began his life story-again...
...land full of misery but optimistic about the future." He studied physics in Germany, "but I knew what was coming." He sidetracked into a favorite topic: "Those who brought Hitler to power argued with the same type of venom I hear here." But then he retrenched, looking at Tom Ward: "One difference between you and them is that you behave differently when you stop and listen to the other side ..." And then he was back to the life story. He fled Germany went to Copenhagen, 1934, and on to London, 1935. To the U. S. in 1935 as a physics...
...years, say pacification experts, the Viet Cong "infrastructure" has been whittled down from 128,000 active cadres to 62,000. Nevertheless, the Viet Cong are still able to collect taxes, recruit troops, and cut practically any road in the country, at least temporarily. Knowledgeable observers smile at on-ward-and-upward statistics rating the security of South Viet Nam's towns and hamlets. Solid assessments of enemy strength are made difficult because the Communists in North Viet Nam may be deliberately lying low. Directives have been intercepted ordering Viet Cong to do nothing to make American commanders think twice about...
MILITARY MEN by Ward Just. 256 pages, Knopf...
What ever happened to the U.S. Army that once fought popular wars and always seemed to win Total Victory? Gone is the glory of Normandy, the Bulge and Okinawa-battles in which, Ward Just recalls, there were "real heroes fighting real villains." In 1971, the Army is painfully on the defensive at home and in full psychological retreat in Viet Nam. Assessing the present plight of the military in an acute if contentious book, the Washington Post's former Viet Nam correspondent finds not a juggernaut but a jumble of men and machines in search of a mission...