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...that the talks could break down. In fact, Hanoi seemed to be preparing its North Vietnamese listeners for an imminent cease-fire and some concessions to the enemy. "There is a time for us to advance," intoned Radio Hanoi, "but there is also a time for us to step backward temporarily, in order to advance more steadily later. Sometimes we must accept a certain agreement with the enemy-aimed at weakening the enemy's forces and strengthening ours." The U.S. State Department, too, apparently anticipates an early settlement; 100 Foreign Service officers have been told to stand...
Influence. The series, The World We Live In, explored space long before Alan Shepard, reached backward into prehistory for "The Earth Is Born," and sang of the earth's treasures in "Woods of Home" when ecology was an uncelebrated concept. A scrupulous series, the World's Great Religions, was praised by scores of religious leaders. These great series became the cornerstones of a major publishing phenomenon, TIME-LIFE Books. These continuing volumes now assure LIFE a measure of survival. In Hedley Donovan's phrase, "LIFE will go on in many ways and places, not least...
...Europe were hopping mad about the rising threat that such acts of terrorism pose to themselves and their passengers. In a recent report to the Flight Safety Foundation, an organization devoted to airline safety problems, Eastern Air Lines Vice President Michael Fenello declared that U.S. airlines are "going backward instead of forward in dealing with the problem...
...rapidly growing central Texas city with a large chicano population since McGovern's visit there. "Houston will probably go for him, it's becoming the liberal city," predicted Molly Ivins, editor of the Texas Observer, one of the state's few liberal newspapers. "The press down here is incredibly backward, though," Ivins added. "They're not just against McGovern, they've taken off on a snit against him. The Dallas Morning News has been particularly...
...York. After earning a doctorate at Yale, she started a 30-year career with the Foreign Policy Association, serving as its research director and editor. She was an early advocate of rapprochement with the Soviets, pleading for a benign internationalism that would stress economic rather than military aid to backward nations. Among her books: Foreign Policy Without Fear (1953), The United States and the New Nations (1964) and The U.N. Today...