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...failing to fulfill promises, made at the time the Paris accords were signed, to the effect that the U.S. would, in his words, "immediately and vigorously supply South Viet Nam" in the event of a full-scale Communist offensive. Tears flowing down his cheeks, Thieu then announced: "I depart today. I ask my countrymen?the armed forces and religious groups?to forgive me my past mistakes I made while in power. The country and I will be grateful to you. I am very undeserving. I am resigning, but I am not deserting...
...impregnable American military compound, filled with thousands of free-spending U.S. Marines and G.I.s. By the time it fell to the Communist attackers last week, Danang had become demoralized and swollen beyond recognition with refugees. TIME Correspondent William Me Whirter spent several days there until he was ordered to depart on an emergency evacuation flight to Saigon. His report...
...Phnom-Penh eventual strangulation and all of Cambodia even greater bloodshed than it has suffered so far. At week's end, there was some new hope that such a change may still be possible; U.S. sources in Phnom-Penh reported that Lon Nol and his family would soon depart Cambodia for Indonesia and then proceed to the U.S. - probably Hawaii, where he underwent medical treatment in 1971 for a stroke. This could open the way for a new government and a negotiated peaceful transition of power to the insurgents. Both the Communists and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the exiled former...
...continue to support the principle of free trade?" Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers, is trying to document a suspicion that the Rabbit, at a U.S. sticker price of $2,999, is being sold below cost, which would be grounds for a "dumping" complaint to the Treasury Depart ment. Robert Link, a Datsun executive, says nervously that "we don't really want to sell less, but we sure wish Detroit would sell more," thus taking the spotlight off the importers' prowess...
Unfortunately, instead of addressing such points, the authors depart on flights of exaggeration that turn Global Reach into an overreach. Breathlessly capitalizing nouns, they assert that multinationals are run by World Managers who aim to create a Global Shopping Center or One Great Market. That Global