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...illusions about the prospects of victory through Vietnamization in that time frame were shattered by the successes of Hanoi's Easter offensive this year, when only American air strikes prevented a South Vietnamese rout. For both sides, those battles seemed to mark an acquiescence, or at least a war-weary recognition of military stalemate, making the negotiations, stymied by the demands of both sides for so long, at last a more promising out. And finally, the bargain across the table was struck between Hanoi and Washington...
...step beyond in teacher training courses, students spend a number of months with the Maharishi himself. Last summer over 2000 people attended the teacher training course in Matorca-Spain Three undergraduates at Harvard graduated from the course Larry Geeslin Larry Farwell and Clark Easter...
...region. Saigon's troops are in control of all of the country's 44 provincial capitals and roughly 90% of South Viet Nam's 17 million people. But they have not been able to dislodge Communist forces from much of the territory they seized in the Easter offensive. All told, the Communists dominate South Viet Nam's sparsely populated eight northern provinces, including the Central Highlands and several districts in the populous, once secure Mekong Delta south of Saigon...
...Laos' Pathet Lao-for representation in any new governments that might be established in an area-wide settlement of the war. The relative ease with which the Phnom-Penh attack was mounted points to the impressive gains the Communists have made in Cambodia since the start of the Easter offensive. They have expanded their area of control (see map, preceding page) from the sparsely populated north and northeast into the more populous south. They have also taken over virtual command of the segment of Route One that runs from the Mekong River to the Viet Nam border...
Radio City Music Hall is New York's answer to the Grand Canyon. Everything about it is superlative, including its attraction for tourists, especially at Easter and Christmas. It is the biggest indoor theater in the world, with 6,000 seats, a mammoth 70 ft. by 35 ft. movie screen, and a stage almost big enough for a football game. When the giant organ bellows The Stars and Stripes Forever, dogs, it is claimed, begin howling in Paramus, N.J. For 40 years through wars, depressions and even a strike of its 46 Rockettes, the Music Hall has never closed...