Word: effective
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...declared. "It will end much sooner if we can have a united front behind our very reasonable proposals." But Nixon did not convincingly explain how his course will achieve peace, or how an appeal issued in public for a façade of unity could possibly have much effect on the watching North Vietnamese. In any event, last week's outburst of criticism suggested that a united front on Viet Nam now is only a wishful thought...
...military forces would freeze in present positions and assume a defensive stance. The plan would also guarantee the Communists de facto political control over the areas of South Viet Nam that they occupy and ultimately, perhaps, a chance to elect representatives to a national Parliament. It would, in effect, legalize the realities of the military situation and amount to an uncontiguous partitioning of South Viet Nam, sometimes known as the "leopard spot" plan. But even if supervised by an international commission, as Vance suggests, it would require a high degree of cooperation between the bitter enemies...
...must not fall into their trap to, in effect, overthrow ourselves. I do not see any circumstance in which we must change the government, except when the people of South Viet Nam say, "We don't want Thieu and Vice President Ky any longer." And if they don't want Thieu and Ky any longer, they have the opportunity to say so in the elections...
Successive Alarms. The new system was sponsored by the Air Transport Association as insurance against airborne chaos. Like the planes used in Baltimore last week, each aircraft equipped with CAS is, in effect, shielded by a huge protective electronic bubble. When one plane's bubble brushes another's, it triggers successive alarms in both cockpits. The first comes 42 seconds before the moment of collision as calculated by the CAS's onboard computers. If the planes are still headed toward each other at 30 seconds, a flashing red light warns the pilots to prepare for evasive action...
Since the patches have survived on the lunar surface despite the moon's constant bombardment by micrometeorites and solar particles, Gold calculates that the event was relatively recent-perhaps less than 30,000 years ago. It probably lasted only ten to 100 seconds. The small craters show the effect of the blast because they are natural heat traps. What was the origin of this fiery outburst, which Gold figures was 100 times more powerful than ordinary sunlight? Writing in the current issue of Science, Gold speculates that it came from the sun itself, possibly as the result...