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Healing. For that reason, the mood in which peace has been accepted may be reassuring: no boasts of victory, no cries of betrayal. From the President on down, few Americans are making exaggerated claims?a refreshing change in style for U.S. rhetoric. In his eloquent press briefing (see page 13...
The President mentioned achieving "peace with honor," but it is a dubious and troubling phrase to apply to Viet Nam. No matter what honor the U.S. could still extract from that cruel battleground, honor must now be sought at home as much as abroad. As Kissinger put it in his...
It remained for the remarkable Kissinger to spell out all the complex provisions of the agreement and its detailed protocols in a masterly 100-minute televised briefing. He readily conceded that "the hatred will not rapidly disappear" in Viet Nam, but he expressed the hope that "people who have suffered...
Mayors' Woe. Late last week Nixon managed to make his plans to hold down spending sound almost equal in importance to the ending of the Viet Nam War. Greeting families of prisoners of war on Friday, he told them: "Now we are engaged in a new battle, the battle...
For Soviet Jews who emigrate to Israel, Vienna is the journey's most important way station. There they eagerly leave the crowded trains and planes that took them out of Russia, receive a quick briefing on their future by the Jewish Agency and board an El Al jet for...