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...statements of the North Vietnamese indicate that the Communists are highly skeptical about our ability to fight this kind of war for an extended period of time. To them, apparently, our escalation would represent an unsustainable last-ditch effort. General Vo Nguyen Giap, who defeated the French at Dienbienphu, published an article two weeks ago in the magazine of the North Vietnamese Communist Party, Hoc Tap, in which he emphasized that an enlarged commitment to South Vietnam would prevent the United States from meeting the obligations of its other alliances. Should the Communists cause trouble elsewhere, he reasons, we would...
...thumbs down came in the midst of a last-ditch effort by the President to break the diplomatic impasse. For more than a week, he and his aides had been dropping hints designed, in the words of an Administration official, "to let the North Vietnamese know that they damn well better hurry up." The implication was clear that if they did not, the U.S. had no choice but to resume bombing...
...ever-present bribery. Producing a thick wad of bills, he tried to buy off his captors, then, dressed in pajamas, ran outside, screaming "Don't kill me!" until two soldiers knocked him down and jumped on him. His body was found three days later in a ditch 30 miles from Lagos. Not far away lay Sir Abubakar, also dead...
...that will put the railroad out of its torture by either killing it quickly or resurrecting it in a new healthy body. On December 1, the Interstate Commerce Commission opened hearings on the New Haven's 256-page application to discontinue all passenger service. The application is a last-ditch stand, and may prove to be an ultimatum that could get the railroad the help that it has been demanding for the last four years...
...from something called Ambush Bay, filming on location in the Philippines. O'Brian swashbuckled past on cue, but then the buffalo ad-libbed by charging the hero, tearing through his combat jacket with its horns, fracturing two of his ribs and leaving him out cold in an irrigation ditch. What a break. As soon as O'Brian gets out of the hospital, they'll shoot the scene where "I bravely get up and shout, 'Come on, I'm all right! Let's keep moving...