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What had driven Washington and Hanoi so close to a final agreement after so many years of stalemate? One big factor was the U.S.'s new relationships with Moscow and Peking, which no longer find it in their interests to duel with Washington over a scrap of Southeast Asian rice land. Nixon believes that his decision to resume full-scale bombing of North Viet Nam and mine its harbors was also "very, very important." It is hard to measure how badly Hanoi has been hurt by these measures. But it seems undeniable that the failure of Moscow and Peking...
Levers. No one in Washington or Saigon doubted that the Administration would find it difficult to bulldoze the tough and resourceful general whom Richard Nixon once called "one of the four or five greatest politicians in the world." Yet in his duel with the Administration, Thieu had few real options. Thieu was considering a strategem under which he would simply ignore Paris and unilaterally propose to resign and turn power over to a six-man "government committee" that would hold new presidential elections in three months. Thieu would claim to have met the Communist demand for his resignation-and then...
Consider the appeal of the events. The grenade throw. The chop, rip and thump. The high dive (out of a 727). The .32-cal. ambush. The hostage relay. The knife in the backstroke. The decapithlon. The duel meet. The cemetery vault...
...game shapes up as a duel between UMass's superb senior quarterback Peil Pennington and the Harvard secondary. If the Crimson is to win, the defensive halfbacks must stop Pennington's aeriel show that accounted for 288 yards last weekend Pennington hit 14 of 25 passes, or 56 per cent, while decimating the Maine pass defense...
Another heralded confrontation of champions will not come off: the long-awaited pole-vault duel between Bob Seagren of the U.S. and Sweden's Kjell Isakkson, who failed to qualify for the final because of a leg injury. Seagren had his problems even without Isakkson's competition. His and his teammates' new poles were confiscated the night before the trials started on the grounds that they were too sophisticated for Olympic competition. Thus the handsome young Californian had to qualify with a pole he had previously abandoned. In other track and field events, the U.S. will be below its traditional...