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Beginning with the noblest of motives-examination of the roots and consequences of the Viet Nam War-this vigorous, chaotic documentary manipulates time for its own ends. The bombing of Haiphong harbor, John Foster Dulles' domino theory, J. Edgar Hoover's fears of "common-ists," a brutal football game, '40s war movies-all flow back and forth like sand in an hourglass. The confusion is deliberate. Hearts and Minds, says Producer-Director Peter Davis, "is not a chronology of war so much as a study of people's feelings...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger weighed in by raising the old specter of falling dominoes. "I know it is fashion able to sneer at the words domino theory," Kissinger told a Washington news conference, referring to the old Eisenhower-era philosophy that if one nation fell to Communism, it would cause other countries around it to fall also. The Secretary went on to argue that "we cannot escape this problem by assuming the responsibility of condemning those who have dealt with us to a certain destruction." The Administration is concerned not only with dominoes falling in Southeast Asia but also...
...collapse of the Cambodian domino, as Kissinger implied, might well enhance the prospects for an eventual Communist victory in South Viet Nam. Still, Vietnamese Communists have been able to put enormous pressure on Saigon even with Phnom-Penh in Lon Nol's hands, and the fall of his government is not likely to make a crucial difference. Beyond that, there remain obstacles to the spread of Communist influence in Southeast Asia. Neighboring Thailand, presumably the next endangered domino, is well equipped to resist Vietnamese influence. Communist insurgents in the northeast have achieved little so far, and Thailand has sufficient...
...Bible always solicits faith in God, never in itself. It does not claim for itself inerrancy, which is the invention of these Bible believers. So what does it solve for them? Subscribers to domino theories, they worry about giving something up and seeing everything topple, instead of looking for an increase of faith and hope and love. TIME says that they are reacting to rationalism, but you show them being rationalistic, deciding in advance and on philosophical grounds what kind of Bible they are going to allow their God to use. Instead of basking in their sense of being grasped...
...strong enough to take 9 million of 30 million votes in Italy's last general election and may well claim the allegiance of half a million Greeks (out of an electorate of only 6 million). Elsewhere in Western Europe, there is trepidation about the possibility of a domino effect. France, for instance, has a Communist Party just as bourgeois in image as Italy's and almost as large and entrenched. Under certain circumstances - a deepening of the economic crisis, for example - the Communist in fluence and appeal might spread from the underbelly to the rest of Europe...