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...agitation succeeds, it will engulf the whole nation within a year. This is a revolution. A total revolution...
...this respect, just how real is the danger of a Communist bloodbath? Might there be a slaughter, as Richard Nixon once predicted, that would engulf "hundreds of thousands [of South Vietnamese] who had dared to oppose Communist aggression...
Lake of Wine. Next week the Common Market agriculture ministers will meet to discuss ways of siphoning off the surplus wine that now threatens to engulf all Southern Europe. One solution is to distill it into alcohol for industrial purposes-an expensive process that would require unpopular subsidies by all Common Market nations. Another proposal: sell it to the Soviet Union, which is willing to buy up to 26.4 million gal. at rock-bottom prices. A third solution: give some of the excess to soldiers, hospital patients and inmates of old folks' homes. British Labor Party M.P. Neil Kinnock...
...captured thousands of Saigon's troops and an enormous amount of U.S.-provided equipment, including warplanes, tanks and artillery. At week's end Lam Dong, a sparsely populated tea-growing province 85 miles northeast of Saigon, also fell. There seemed little doubt that the Communists would soon engulf practically all of Military Region II, the twelve provinces in the middle of the country...
...objectivity and assume that because they are chronicling the world's pain, someone else will relieve it. This article is one example; I could assume that the mere act of writing it will change people's minds, break them away from the apathy and frustration that seem to engulf us all. I don't assume that; and although I have no quick answers, I hope to work toward finding them when I leave here...