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...other ranking U.S. officials. Time and again, the Pentagon papers show that Washington's instinctive reaction was to resort to military force when faced with difficult problems in Asia. Fortunately, less hawkish options were usually adopted, but the initial responses of U.S. leaders were uniformly militaristic and sometimes downright bellicose...
...sounded downright naive when, on assuming his post in Saigon, he advised the JCS: "No sophisticated psychological approach is necessary to attract the country people to the GVN [Government of Viet Nam, Saigon] at this time. The assurance of a reasonably secure life is all that is necessary." That assurance was at the core of the conflict?and has still not been wholly achieved...
...deploy substantial numbers of troops in combat, it will become a war between the U.S. and a large part of the population of South Viet Nam. U.S. troops will begin to take heavy casualties in a war they are ill-equipped to fight in a noncooperative if not downright hostile countryside. Once we suffer large casualties, we will have started a well-nigh irreversible process. Our involvement will be so great that we cannot?without national humiliation ?step short of achieving our objectives. I think humiliation would be more likely ?even after we have paid terrible costs." Congressional...
Losing weight has never really been very much fun. Even the most considerate diet imposes unseemly demands on the will, and running in place can be downright tiring. Surely, fatties have long maintained, there must be easier ways to slim down. Now there are -scads of them. The current easy-exercise-equipment market is doing a $100 million-a-year business in belts and wheels, inflatable suits, stretch straps, electronic and battery-operated devices, all designed to knock off pounds and inches with a minimum of effort on the part of the individual. For those who cannot raise even...
...plangent Southern accent coming through the telephone receiver was familiar. The political philosophy was downright unmistakable. "The Supreme Court should be abolished," Martha Mitchell told the Washington Evening Star last week after the court had rejected the arguments of Husband John Mitchell's Justice Department against desegregation by busing (see THE NATION). "We should extinguish the Supreme Court," she decreed. "We have no youth on the court, no Southerners, no women-just nine old men. I have never been so furious. Nine old men should not overturn the tradition of America...