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Every U.S. embassy in the world, as a matter of course, has an emergency evacuation plan should "situations arise which might endanger American citizens." The program to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon is being rapidly updated; details are classified top secret. For potential Vietnamese evacuees, serious contingency planning began only...
Special Facts. Underlying much of the argument is the question of whether the death penalty has a deterrent effect. Most experts feel there are no reliable studies on which to base an answer. Now criminal-justice circles are abuzz with word that in a soon to be published study, Economist...
Thieu's obsessive reclusiveness has cost his country dearly in recent weeks. Apparently, after consulting only two close aides, he summarily ordered ARVN to abandon three provinces in the Central Highlands and the northernmost province of Quang Tri. Most Pentagon analysts acknowledge that on paper Thieu's strategy may have...
The most crucial sector was on the northern front, which protects Pochentong airport. The U.S. was bringing in about 1,500 tons of ammunition and food and medical supplies daily. If that flow was cut or seriously disrupted, and stockpiles were depleted, Phnom-Penh would collapse quickly. It is likely...
ROSENCRANTZ AND Guildenstern Are Dead is a play about death in more ways than one. Proceeding at the pace of a funeral dirge, its funniest lines are shrouded in sepulchral solemnity, while its supposedly climactic soliloquies are greeted, by a flurry of unsolicited chuckles. When Rosencrantz, after discovering Hamlet's...