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Security will continue to be a problem. One solution, as U.S. units grow fewer and smaller, would be to pull as many Americans as possible into coastal enclaves where they could be more easily supplied and protected. Too much isolation from the South Vietnamese, however, would only diminish the effectiveness of the American troops. Whatever is done, the U.S. forces will be uncomfortably dependent upon ARVN to hold and police the countryside. U.S. military planners are frankly uneasy about the situation. Said former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke, one of the authors of the withdrawal plans: "The nightmare...
...slate candidates could theoretically diminish M. I. T. representation on the board if they won at the expense of Tech slate nominees. However, Zavelle said this was unlikely in that M. I. T. students would not be likely to vote for Harvard candidates...
...Woman of the Year have, with a new sense of truculent self-awareness, presented Nixon with a special paradox. According to Etzioni, the issues that have thrust forward his relatively conservative politics are inflation and crime. If he solves both problems, the saliency of the issues will diminish and the voter will go back to attaching more weight to the liberal issues?and may vote Democratic as a result. If Nixon does not redress inflation and cut crime, then the country may turn even more conservative?to George Wallace?particularly if the Viet Nam War is viewed as a defeat...
Broker's Role. Basically, the U.S. is trying to regain leverage for itself among the Arab states-an attempt the British and French have been making in order to diminish Soviet influence. Thus, when the Israelis described the U.S. moves as appeasement, Rogers objected to the word. "It suggests that the Arabs are enemies of the U.S.," he said. "Of course that isn't true...
...targets were surface-to-air missile sites, and the destruction of SAM sites was a warning to Egypt not to press too hard. It was also an indication that, for the time being, Israel would rather maintain the uncertain status quo than agree to any peace formula that would diminish its security...