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...emphasis is very much on the war which is at hand. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew to Saigon for his eleventh visit-and his first in seven months-"to gain firsthand information on the situation." Wheeler went out of his way to blunt the growing criticism of the way that General William C. Westmore land, the U.S. commander, is conducting the war, and to slap down speculation that he might soon be relieved of his command. "A corollary purpose" of the tour, said Wheeler, "is to convey to General Westmoreland the great confidence placed...
...mitigating influence may blunt the draft's damage. "We'd been seriously thinking of reducing the size of GSAS anyway," says Sisson. A committee on the "future of the Graduate School" is considering, among other matters, such a reduction...
...embassy supposedly, according to the papers, has shown some disturbance. But let's be absolutely blunt and clear. The American forces in Vietnam can do what they want to do. And when they're interested enough in getting something done they get it done. If these men remain in prison or are shot, it's with the complicity of American forces...
...Bulletin staff, which includes Miss Theeman and Schwartz, also printed blunt editorials criticizing the Council, under whose constitution the Bulletin is published...
...hard-working an any activity. Morse will be 68; Duncan, 48. Morse's under-dog position is ascribed to a number of factors, especially his position on Vietnam, his efforts to curb certain recent national strikes, his endorsement of Hatfield against Duncan in 1966, and his frank, sometimes blunt statements about a variety of matters...