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...combat toll in Red manpower, Hanoi's most precious asset, has been horrendous: 50,000 Communist dead so far this year alone. By frequent ground sweeps and incessant bombing, the U.S. has destroyed the sanctuaries in mountain and jungle that the enemy so long enjoyed. On the brink of falling to the Communists when the U.S. buildup began in mid-1965, South Viet Nam is now a citadel of sovereignty that even Hanoi admits cannot be taken by overt aggression. In that sense, the conventional war is no longer a contest. "The U.S. can defeat us in positional warfare...
...iron lid that saved the city from massive hurt. Still, there was little peace in the nation's cities. From Providence, R.I., to Portland, Ore., communities large and small heard the sniper's staccato song, smelled the fire bomber's success, watched menacing crowds on the brink of becoming mindless mobs. The only consolation was that, compared with the agony of Newark and Detroit, last week's racial convulsions were more of a threat than a storm...
Kafka country? No, contemporary Africa, where injustice and revenge are concrete forces, not metaphors for alienated modern man. The book is set in a village hovering on the brink of civilization, and the topsy-turvy quality of its life is caught so expertly by the author that terrifying and absurd events come to seem fully logical. Studding the story are keenly observed individual portraits, among them a witch doctor frantically clinging to a waning authority and a self-important chieftain who | wears European khakis under his tribal robes...
Back from the Brink. To head off the suit, which is still pending in the courts, Arizona Senator Carl Hayden and 14 other Senators co-sponsored the Failing Newspaper Act. All the sponsors come from states in which there are newspapers with similar joint operating arrangements. The bill would permit such setups as long as one of the consolidating papers "appears unlikely to remain or become a financially sound publication"; the bill also permits outright merger in the same circumstances...
Testifying in favor of the bill, Tucson Citizen Publisher William A. Small Jr. contended that Tucson (pop. 257,000) was simply not a big enough city to support two independent dailies. The Citizen, he said, had been on the "brink of death," and the agreement with the Star had been a "lifesaving device." Jack Howard, president of Scripps-Howard, a chain with a total of seven joint operating agreements, agreed. The effect of the bill, he said, is not to "restrain competition but to preserve it to the fullest extent possible, to preserve two or more healthy papers where there...