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Last week retired General William Westmoreland, who ran the massive combat over there more years than anyone, was back on the White House grounds barking out his lament that Ford could not use "tactical air support" and "B52 strikes" and "the mining of Haiphong Harbor." He stood like a ramrod, his chiseled jaw working, his eyes flashing as if he once again heard the distant trumpet, asserting of his old antagonists: "The only language that Hanoi understands is the language of force...
...admiration for people who could fire hopelessly and calmly at phalanxes of B52's is not therefore less. Quite the reverse, since superhuman heroism has as little meaning to ordinary people like us as the subhumanity to which Nixon would reduce his victims. But our shame is greater. For we allowed the bureaucrats to send those phalanxes in our name...
...need of an armistice to end the "peace." Canadian truce supervisors complain that the fighting in South Vietnam is still too intense to permit careful "truce" supervision. Fighting continues in Laos, although Pathet Lao and government officials established a formal cease-fire on February 22. In Cambodia, American B52's have continued to bomb in support of that country's military dictatorship. And at the 13-nation peace conference in Paris, haggling over Saigon's refusal to release civilian political prisoners, over satisfactory funding for the reconstruction of Indochina, and over Hanoi's release of American POWs provide more diplomatic...
...reasons for the elusiveness of a Cambodian ceasefire as many observers have noted has been that U.S. influence in the country's political life is stronger than that of the regime established after the March 1970 coup instigated by CIA agent Son Ngoc Thanh. No amount of stepped-up B52 bombing can change that fact. Unless the U.S. stops its interference in Phnom Penh, chances for a ceasefire will remain...
...additional 200,000 buyers), the magazine has devoted more space to news and timely features; although the ratio of pictures to text is still fifty-fifty, the photographs seem chosen to complement rather than dominate accompanying stories. "We deal with hotter subjects now," says Photography Editor Jean Rigade. "B52 raids rather than National Geographic-type picture stories about the great rivers of the world. The beauty of the photos is less important than their content...