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...last week began to abandon Khe Sanh, the once idyllic valley in South Viet Nam's northwest corner that early this year became the scene of the war's biggest and bitterest siege. The news could hardly have been more startling. For months, the American people had been told that the base was indispensable to U.S. strategy and prestige. When its 6,200-man garrison came under siege and heavy artillery bombardment from the North Vietnamese in mid-January, some observers saw an ominous similarity to Dienbienphu. The French base had been overrun in 1954 by another North...
...filled." If anything is to blame for revolution, thinks Wilson, it may be prosperity, which has freed an ever increasing number of people, educated and not so educated, to participate in the political process. In this situation, government cannot act hastily. "Concessions sufficient to induce one side to abandon violence might be sufficient to induce the other side to resort to violence. Only when it is clear that neither side can gain through violent protest does the resort to such forms of protest cease...
...Republican congressional leadership indicated that it might abandon its longstanding opposition and accept an Administration bill banning mailorder sales of all guns or even a stronger version by Tydings requiring gun owners to obtain licenses and register their weapons. "Let the testimony show the need," declared Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett M. Dirksen, "and I'll be Johnny-on-the-spot in supporting...
...this is a situation that could have the most serious consequences for these talks," he told Xuan Thuy and Le Due Tho, Hanoi's negotiators. Harriman got his reply-not in Paris but in South Viet Nam. The Viet Cong's Liberation Radio warned Saigon residents to abandon the capital or prepare for a 100-round-per-day rocket barrage that would last for 100 days. If the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong are able to carry out their threat, the attacks might very well serve to stiffen both U.S. and South Vietnamese determination to resist. And that...
Should a small-town doctor be held to the same medical standards in a malpractice suit as his counterpart in the big city? Traditionally, the answer has been no, but with the new ease of communication, the so-called "locality" rule is changing. Massachusetts is the latest state to abandon the old standard. The ruling came in the case of a smalltown anesthesiologist accused of having given an excessive dose of a painkiller to a pregnant woman, thereby causing partial paralysis of her left leg. While noting that the lack of medical resources in a small town could be taken...