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...Eggs. The White House reacted warily. "They have put one seemingly good egg in the basket with all the bad ones," said an Administration spokesman. Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler noted that the proposal contained "positive as well as clearly unacceptable elements," but he added that the U.S. would never "turn the 17 million people of Viet Nam over to the Communists...
Ransom. There was no doubt however, that the Communist plan was a skillful effort to capitalize on America's weariness with an unsuccessful war. The President might be inclined to dismiss the whole package as too one-sided, but because of that one good egg in the basket - the release of P.W.s - he knows, as a politician with a sense of the public mood, that he cannot afford to do so. Less than a month ago, Secretary of State William Rogers declared: "Obviously the U.S., although we have tremendous concern for the safety of the prisoners...
Even the totally paralyzed are enjoying the toy show. They are particularly enchanted by the "trammock," a basket-shaped, rubber-rimmed combination playpen and hammock that is suspended from the ceiling. Seated inside it, immobile children can be swung round and round or bounced up and down, giving them, says Sandhu, "the miraculous feeling of movement in space...
...wicker basket held by one soldier attested to the exploits in the neighboring country, a country most Vietnamese consider to be much more inferior and more backward than their...
...North Vietnamese soldiers but also taking devastating casualties themselves, and in some instances retreating in bloody disorder (see THE WORLD). Pentagon analysts called it "a rearguard action under medium pressure," and some Saigon briefers spoke of it as "redeployment"-a word that suggests the shuffling of papers from IN basket to OUT basket. One South Vietnamese general, obviously an apt student of the language, explained it as "normal troop rotation...