Word: destroys
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...fact, compared the session with the Battle of Midway, which, 27 years ago this week, turned the tide in the Pacific war. If the comparison was vastly exaggerated, it did express Saigon's fear that the Nixon Administration might be willing to make concessions in Paris that would destroy the Thieu regime. "Our government obviously wants to know the intentions of the United States," said Pham Dang Lam, Saigon's chief negotiator in Paris, who then pointedly recalled Nixon's words that "a great nation cannot renege on its pledges...
...Thieu regime is the strongest that South Viet Nam has had in the past six years. Even if the U.S. wanted to abandon Thieu-and there is no sign whatever that it does -it might not be able to do so for lack of a substitute. "If the Americans destroy Thieu," says one high-ranking foreign diplomat in Saigon, "the government of South Viet Nam will collapse utterly. This is the Communists' strategy." While Thieu cannot be expected to cave in on the coalition issue, it would obviously be impossible to achieve a settlement if he stuck...
GUNTER GRASS believes in democracy. He disapproves of the German students on the Far Left as much as he does those on the neo-Nazi right, because both are trying to destroy Germany's democracy rather than strengthen it. In the series of speeches, open letters, and articles translated in Speak Out!, Grass presents his vision of what the German state should be, and his criticisms of West Germany...
...power, were not really interested in their democracy. If those faults can now be corrected, then democracy, which Grass considers Germany's most hopeful course at the present, can succeed. So naturally, he believes that working to strengthen democracy-partly by criticizing it-is more important than trying to destroy the imperfect democracy that now exists...
...relation to this conflict." After initial hesitation, the Army fought back, describing the battle as a "tremendous, gallant victory." Major General Melvin Zais, commander of the 101st, observed that "the only significance of Hill 937 was the fact that there were North Vietnamese on it. My mission was to destroy enemy forces and installations. We found the enemy on Hill 937, and that is where we fought him." Bypassing the hill would have made no military sense, he explained, because it would have given the Communists control of the high ground. "It's a myth that...