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...Structure of Command. Each Viet Cong guerrilla is a cog in a complicated, disciplined command structure. At the apex in Hanoi sits Ho Chi Minh and his top political commissar, Le Duan, 59, who handles overall strategy for Ho's revolution. Also in Hanoi is Lieut. General Nguyen Van Vinh, 50, who directs the southward flow of men and supplies. It is to him that COSVN reports. Until he died last month, General Nguyen Chi Thanh commanded COSVN, aided by at least six other...
...United Nations, the Arab-Russian disillusionment reached its apex. Discouraged by their unsuccessful attempt to get the General Assembly to demand the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Arab territory, the Russians, with American encouragement, tried to persuade the Arabs to accept a resolution that tied withdrawal to recognition of Israel. The Arabs indignantly turned it down. When Russia and the U.S. then voted with a majority of the Assembly to send the entire Middle East issue back to the Security Council, the Arabs accused the Russians of betraying them, promised to carry on the fight on their...
...mind was increasingly pre-occupied with war in Asia. This did not entail any backtracking on the commitment "To Fulfill These Rights," but it did mean that the White House was not going to think up a program to do so. The energies of that tiny group at the apex of government were now directed else-where. If a program was to be forth-coming, it would have to be the work of the civil-rights movement, with whatever assistance it could master in government departments and universities. There was no reason to assume that the movement would fail...
...model of the memorial, to be built in the capital's West Potomac Park midway between Jefferson's and Lincoln's. But unlike those neoclassical memorials, Breuer's design calls for seven free standing walls, massive granite triangles each 60 ft. high at the apex, radiating from a central stone courtyard. Narrow pools of water run along the base of each wall; small contrariwise triangles beside the pools conceal spotlights. From the air, the monolithic walls appear to be the blades of some gigantic turbine. From the surrounding park land, they seem more like a miniature...
...apex stands Virna Lisi, a quail with two hot pilots on her tail. Lieut. Tony Curtis bags her first, but Flight...