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...House and 61 to 38 in the Senate. In theory, the Democrats could agree to make enough compromises-for example, cutting the dollar amounts on their spending bills-to persuade Ford to go along with their legislation or, alternatively, to win enough Republican votes in the critical battlefield of the House to override the President's vetoes...
...Liners. Neither mistresses nor the fact that he kept a light on in his room until he was 30 is enough to keep the coward from combat. It is on the battlefield, with some astonishingly evocative camera work, that the director-writer-star sends up Russian literature and never lets it come down. It is as if one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Hasidic schoolboys were managing Tolstoy's estate and Dostoevsky's psychoses. The Brothers Karamazov meet the Brothers Marx; the epic of War and Peace is reduced to a battle of church and shtetl; Boris...
...attack comes, the South can count on numerical superiority on the ground. Its tough, well-trained 625,000-man regular army would face only 470,000 Northern soldiers. Moreover, many of the South's officers gained valuable battlefield experience in South Viet Nam. In the air, however, the North enjoys a 3-to-1 advantage in planes. The South must therefore rely on U.S. fighter-bombers based at two airfields in South Korea and on the carriers of the Seventh Fleet...
...various degrees of American involvement in Viet Nam, President Ford last week declared with utter finality that for the U.S., the war was over. A massive Communist force, which had closed in on Saigon from all sides with staggering speed, lay waiting after abruptly halting its advance. Unmistakably, the battlefield lull meant that Saigon had one last chance to avoid total military defeat. It could form a new "peace government" that would be acceptable to the Communists; that government would then arrange what would amount to a negotiated surrender to the Communists. No specific terms were spelled out, but Hanoi...
...supplied bomb, the Defense Department acknowledged--an "asphyxiation bomb." Officially called canister bomb, the units, or CBUs, and originally intended as a device for exploding mines in front of advancing troops, these bombs absorbed all the oxygen within a 200-yard radius. At Xuan Loc, last week's main battlefield, hundreds of PRG soldiers were said to have died of suffocation...