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...Time in South Viet Nam is increasingly on the side of the Government. But in the short run, with half the population still in the countryside, the Viet Cong will remain a powerful force which cannot be dislodged from its constituency so long as the constituency continues to exist. Peace in the immediate future must hence be based on accommodation...
...Huntington's apparent preference for accommodation "in the immediate future" seems to be based on another observation which he makes in the article: "To eliminate Viet Cong control in these areas would be an expensive, time-consuming and frustrating task. It would require a much larger and more intense military and pacification effort than is currently contemplated by Saigon and Washington. Consequently, effective Viet Cong control of these areas is a political fact which does not seem likely to change for some while, if indeed it ever does...
...titles like "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom of the Toilet Bowl" and "The Man Who Bites," the comic sounded like an instant winner, but both stories are incomprehensible jumbles of Martian deserts and bathrooms. Others include a giant mouse that chases both Americans and the Viet Cong out of Vietnam and a scientist who tries to change the direction of Western culture by involving everyone in a game he calls "Life." The best story of this unexceptional collection is titled 'Forbidden Planet." Intergalactic warriors plan to destroy the earth by giving a small switch...
...President's speech, North Viet Nam's Xuan Thuy denounced them as "an electoral gift certificate" aimed solely at improving Republican chances in the November elections. Alluding to Bruce's description of the Communists' Sept. 17 points as "new wine in old bottles," the Viet Cong's Duong Dinh Thao called Nixon's speech "a bottle marked 'Peace' but which contained no wine at all-only gunpowder, poisonous chemicals and many words in the Goebbels style...
...still a ragtag force, ill equipped with a bewildering array of Communist and American weapons. But, as it demonstrated in its recent relief of Kompong Thom and its stand at Taing Kauk, the army is capable of slugging it out with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong...