Word: fallback
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These programs being typical of "adult" programming, what is one to do? After all, even the intellectually inclined feel occasional craving for mental popcorn in the privacy of the living room. For those who find themselves in this situation, there is a fallback position...
...Security Conference completed, then move to a new SALT agreement and a successful trip to Washington. In the end, the Russians simply had to make more concessions than they wanted to on Basket Three. "We didn't even have to go to our fallback positions on most of the Basket Three issues," says one Western negotiator. "They were so eager for a July summit that the whole basket fell into place within two weeks...
INDOCHINA. The swift and almost uncontested Communist offensive in South Viet Nam raised an unsettling question: Had 50,000 American lives and $150 billion in U.S. aid been spent in vain? The government of Nguyen Van Thieu was proving much weaker than had been thought, and the fast fallback of his forces approached an all-out rout. Obviously, U.S. intelligence about Thieu and his powers had been grievously faulty. First, the former imperial capital of Hue fell to the Communists; then so did five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real...
...from Takhmau, a suburb of Phnom-Penh so critical to the capital's defenses that one Western diplomat vows that "if the insurgents take Takhmau. I'm heading for the airport." One might expect that the approach to Takhmau would be studded with government gun emplacements and fallback defensive positions. Not so. It is poorly defended. To the soldiers along Route 2, which cuts through Takhmau to Phnom-Penh, the situation looks bleak. They feel that the government has done little for them. They complain about the corruption of the Lon Nol regime. One soldier, a deep orange...
...negotiating position that had not yet been presented to the Soviets during the first phase of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, then under way in Helsinki. When the U.S. later tried to take a stiffer approach, the Soviets, believing that the Beecher article outlined the real fallback position, resisted. The incident brought CIA polygraph experts to the State Department to search for the source of the leak (it is not known whether he was found). The leak was a legitimate cause for worry, though there is no evidence that the disclosure had any major or lasting impact on the shape...