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...most capitals of Asia, where the long view prevails, Laos is regarded as a brief episode in a long, drawn-out struggle, in which the U.S. is, in the G.I. vernacular, "short" and getting shorter all the time. Over the past year or two, in fact, a new, calmer view of the whole Indochina war has spread through Asia, in part the result of a reassessment in the light of U.S. withdrawal. Many sophisticated Asians, including the leaders of some of the nations once regarded as dominoes, are now privately convinced that Hanoi will prevail, and have come...
Healing Glimpse. Undoubtedly the Nixon Administration has contributed to the new, calmer mood, both by commission and omission. The cautious withdrawal from Viet Nam has largely disarmed the antiwar movement. "Repression," real or imagined, has also stilled a lot of dissent. For all their unfairness, Spiro Agnew's attacks on the press have made many practitioners in journalism and TV a little more cautious about playing up news of dissent. The election results of last fall had a healing effect, for they gave the nation a glimpse of itself, in the kinds of candidates it accepted and rejected...
...White House, they see the cooling as the result of two years of Richard Nixon's special kind of managerial stewardship. The people who run this Administration are less frenetic, they say. So the people who are touched by it are calmer. It is the absence of a Washington spectacle like Lyndon Johnson, the refusal to make great promises that cannot be fulfilled. Hopes and desires have diminished and are now more in line with reality. There is in this era of quietude, the Nixon thinkers contend, a grudging growth of belief in the President's pledges...
...most finely calibrated gauge of the South's resistance to integration has been the oratory of the region's politicians-the classic promises of segregation forever, of a last stand at the schoolhouse door. Six newly sworn Deep South Governors have been taking a startlingly calmer line since the new year began. Most striking example: the inauguration of Georgia's Jimmy Carter, who stepped in front of his predecessor, Lester Maddox, and an audience of 5,000 to declare: "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." Throughout the South, there...
...debate on police brutality in Cambridge was far calmer and less well attended Monday night at City Council, but the problem is nowhere near solved. If anything the scope of the controversy has widened...