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...helicopters from West Germany, reopening a bomber base in Thailand. Fresh fighter-bombers winged into the theater, bringing to 1,000 the number of U.S. planes poised to strike North Viet Nam. The gathering force had been ordered into place by a U.S. President who seemed determined either to blunt the Communist offensive that threatened to overpower such key South Vietnamese cities as Hué and Kontum, or to punish the North Vietnamese for succeeding...
...other front, at home. So far, domestic criticism has not got out of hand. In his speech, he warned that the Communists might try to win their victory by persuading Congress or the public of the futility of the war. This was also a familiar plea-perhaps calculated to blunt criticism-but it seems to be effective. One of the Senate's formidable doves. Senator George Aiken, even counseled Nixon critics "not to encourage this war to go on, not to take the side of the enemy...
Some military authorities believe that the North Vietnamese will not attack Kontum until there is had weather. Bad weather would blunt U.S. air power. Others say that the North Vietnamese are steadily consolidating and regrouping their forces and will attack when this move is complete...
...wilderness enthusiasts of the Sierra Club, the Disney plan was an outrage. They filed suit to stop it and carried their fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court-only to be faced with a blunt legal question: What right did the club have...
...problems concerning the whole school were discussed openly. A radical aspect of these meetings, more so than letting students on the committee, was that "they never came to decisions by majority vote. Whenever irreconcilable viewpoints persisted among faculty members or with student representatives. Gropius did not try to blunt the issue by compromises, but let instead the opinions stand in stark contrast to be worked out by continuing experiments and discussions. Some of them never found a generally accepted solution while others resolved themselves by a gradual shift of opinion, thanks to new experiments and tests...