Word: defeating
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...What Withdrawal Would Really Mean" [Oct. 24], you keep referring to "our defeat" in Viet Nam. I can't recall one operation there that was a military defeat for U.S. forces. For years now V.C. and N.V.A. troops have operated with complete freedom from staging areas in Laos, Cambodia and the DMZ, only to be decimated once they fielded forces in R.V.N. Our forces have allowed the enemy to stockpile vast amounts of food, weapons and ordnance, and once feeling the full capacity reached, moved in to capture and destroy these stores. Our forces, according to General Giap...
...pite of the lack of complete support from "freedom-loving Americans," our forces in R.V.N. have transformed that country into a viable nation slowly growing to the stage where it can hold its own against the" terrorists from the North. Viet Nam was a defeat for this country's civilians, not for our armed forces...
...Administration is not "getting through to the public"-not just on Viet Nam, but also on such issues as the Safeguard ABM and the nomination of Judge Clement Haynsworth to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Haynsworth question is especially vexing to Nixon right now, since he faces almost certain defeat when the nomination comes to a vote in the Senate this week. In each of these controversies, Mollenhoff contended, newspapers, magazines and television news reports have "distorted" the facts and failed to give the Administration's case a fair hearing...
...President's attacking his detractors; what is unsettling about Nixon's current offensive is the weapons he has chosen and the way he does battle. In his Viet Nam speech he honored the patriotism of his critics-and then impugned it by remarking: "North Viet Nam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that." While there is much room for thoughtful criticism of television news, Agnew's blast was partisan and intemperate, and left a certain impression that the issue would never have been raised had the networks backed the President. Dean Burch...
Penn, undefeated and ranked fourth in the nation until it lost to the Crimson three weeks ago, was upset by Columbia, 2-1, last Saturday. The loss was the Quakers' third straight Ivy defeat and dropped Penn to fourth place in the Ivy Standings. The Quakers now must beat Cornell or else conceivably finish tied for seventh in the Ivy League...