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...compared: Westmoreland was the crusader sent to win the war; Abrams was the realist sent to help end U.S. involvement in it. Differences in style, however, were clearer. Westmoreland was the stiff, ramrod, ceremonial-looking commander who saw light at the end of the tunnel. Abrams was a blunt, earthy soldier who gave reporters refreshingly frank estimates of the precarious American position and surprised critics of the Army by insisting on the prosecution of six Green Berets who murdered a suspected Vietnamese double agent...
Admitting that he had been "an inept candidate," undone by his blunt speech and stiff bearing, Westmoreland went back to editing his memoirs, due for publication by year's end. Edwards is given almost no chance of survival in the November election against the winner of a Democratic runoff next week. That race pits Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 58, against a promising newcomer in South Carolina politics, former Harvard Star Quarterback Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, 36, a Charleston investment banker...
...final trials next month; it is still too soon for the aluminum backers to abandon ship. Optimism, though, is difficult to find in the Mariner camp. Brit Chance's boat was in drydock last week undergoing major surgery. The reason: her radical design -a hull that had a blunt, "fastback" stern instead of the traditional tapered underbody-simply had not worked...
This spring there was a quiet announcement that he planned to cut a record in Miami, then make a five-week U.S. tour. He is clear-eyed and healthy, but retains some blunt and black views about drugs and musicians. "The same thing that makes a man pick up his guitar and play is the same thing that makes him take any drug he can find," he says...
...declared, "know better than we about those who oppose international détente, who favor whipping up the arms race and returning to the methods and procedures of the cold war." Everyone at the table knew whom Brezhnev was aiming at: Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 62, the blunt, stubborn, increasingly powerful leader of the U.S. opposition to détente-and a hard runner for the Democratic presidential nomination...