Word: effective
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...that he had a plan to end the war, a promise that contributed to his narrow victory. Once it became clear that under the inevitable ground rules the U.S. was incapable of winning a military victory in Viet Nam ?a fact that Nixon has admitted?the North in effect lost all incentive to go for a compromise. Thus, Nixon now seems to have raised false hopes, and this week's Moratorium may be only the beginning of the price he must pay for doing so. The specific impact of the Moratorium will not be known for some time...
Absent Deputy. While the entire U.S. delegation maintains a pose of patience and persistence, the dreariness of it all is having a demoralizing effect. The No. 2 negotiator, New York Attorney Lawrence E. Walsh, 57, has not even taken part in the talks since June. Although on call if needed in Paris, he has spent much of his time attending to private business and American Bar Association affairs back home. The only genuine smile among the Americans seemed to belong to the always ebullient Harold Kaplan, the chief press officer. After years of graciously answering reporters' post-midnight queries...
Basic Tactic. The message is unlikely to have much effect on the course of legislation. It would be astonishing if the White House really expected that it would. Rather, it sets the basic Republican tactic as politicians begin thinking about next year's congressional elections: the G.O.P. must stop its internal bickering and concentrate on the real enemy, the do-nothing Democrats who control Congress...
GEORGE P. BAKER, Dean of the Business School, worked in his office. Baker said that the Moratorium had little effect on the Business School and that most classes there went on as planned...
...editorial called President Nixon's statement that he will ignore yesterday's Moratorium "the biggest mistake of his long career." It said, "He showed what no leader of a democracy should show, that public opinion will have no effect at all upon public policy...