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...States. The success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the puppet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam. and it is thus understandable that President Nixon and his advisors have "ruled out" the possibility of an abrupt, immediate withdrawal...
Unresolved Conflict. The trial failed to resolve the conflict between the two accounts of the murder. Prosecution witnesses confirmed that Samuel Saikin had threatened both Joel and Ella Jean, and two recalled his mentioning the surgery to blot out her memory. But the defense was just as strong. One witness said that Joel had complained about his father and promised "to get even" with him. More important, a gas-station attendant placed the two Saikins and the girl together on the Indiana Toll Road and produced a credit-card slip to confirm the identification...
...movie can't change anybody; it can only confirm what you already believe," Downey said in an interview last week. "I want to convince people who are insane that they're right, and should stay with...
There have long been reports that the Green Berets also employ some dirty ways-if occasionally necessary ones. It is as easy to confirm such reports as it is to get the CIA to admit that it engages in spying on other countries. Nonetheless, the Special Forces have been accused of torturing and killing prisoners, parachuting poisoned foodstuffs into enemy camps, and slipping doctored ammunition, designed to explode on use, into enemy arms caches...
Following a Whirlwind. The fact that Budge considered leaving the SEC just five months after becoming its head tended to confirm an impression in Washington that he is not overenthusiastic about his current post. He succeeded Manuel Cohen, a whirlwind policymaker who had greatly speeded the pace and expanded the variety of SEC regulatory activities. "Judge" Budge, a former Idaho Republican Congressman and state district judge who served as one of the SEC commissioners for more than four years, is quite different. He is likely to put off a study of an important question for a month or so until...