Word: defeating
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...peace: that the South Vietnamese people be permitted to choose their own government, free of imposition by outsiders. It is a fine theory, and President Thieu supports it. The trouble with the theory is that whoever organizes elections in Viet Nam wins them. Hanoi cannot be expected to accept defeat at any elections the Thieu regime supervises-since the Communists are not defeated now. No doubt the North Vietnamese would like to get the war over with too, but they simply have not been hurt enough, as far as anyone can tell, to make them accept a settlement that they...
Defense Without War, led by Gene Sharp, Research Fellow at the Center. The seminar will discuss "potentialities of prepared nonviolent mass civilian resistance to deter and defeat internal dictatorship, and military coups." Focusing on specific cases-from the Kapp Putsch of 1920 to last year's Czechoslovakian invasion-the seminar will explore "means of preparation and training that could make nonviolent resistance more effective as eventual replacement for military defense...
Rico Petrocelli drove in three runs with ?? doubles to help the streaking Red Sox defeat the Detroit Tigers, 6-5, last night and move into a second-place tie with the losers. The Red Sox have won five games in a row, and eight of their last nine, while the Tigers have lost five consecutive games...
Most of the Pentagon critics agreed that their defeat was caused by their own lack of organization and by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's self-imposed cutback of $4.1 billion. Further, Laird promised more appropriations reductions over the next three years by cutting military personnel from 3.5 to 2.6 million men. Currently the military's payroll is $41 billion annually...
...South Vietnamese, until only U.S. air, artillery and logistic support need remain. If the South Vietnamese should prove incapable of fulfilling this assigned role, the U.S. would then have to decide whether to stop the withdrawals or to abandon Saigon's army and regime to almost certain defeat...