Word: fallbacks
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...below the DMZ to the Laotian border. It now blocks off the easiest supply line that Giap has into South Viet Nam. By taking Khe Sanh, the Communists would outflank all the allied forces in Quang Tri province and part of Thua Thien province as well, probably forcing a fallback to a new defense line?perhaps as far back at Hué. As Giap well knows, Khe Sanh has become almost as vital symbolically as it is militarily; a Communist victory there would have immense propaganda and psychological value to Hanoi...
...fuel dumps, traffic and gun emplacements along the Trail, v. only 5,692 over North Viet Nam. Even so, roughly 80% of the trucks get through, and the U.S. Marines at Khe Sanh were oiling their weapons in preparation for the worst. Other Marines at "The Rock Pile," the fallback base 16 miles northeast of Khe Sanh, hurried to complete an airstrip so that supplies and reinforcements can be flown in, and giant B-52s daily dumped tons of bombs on infiltration routes from Laos...
Javits gamely insists that he and Rockefeller still consider Romney the best moderate candidate. "We have no fallback position," he said. "There are no alternatives." None, that is, unless Romney happens to stumble. Then Javits would not have to look far for an alternative-namely, Nelson Rockefeller...
...Squeeze, Trim. Should Nixon stumble, the ideal fallback candidate, to conservatives, would be Reagan, 56. William Buckley's National Review calls him "as strong a candidate as the Republican Party can field...
...admissions officials sometimes despair, the college senior lives in a limbo of uncertainty for months. He gropes for advice on where to apply, flounders through a maze of uncoordinated information on fellowships, grants, assistantships, usually picks at least one prestige school, one with strong financial help, one fallback possibility. He badgers professors, who at a big campus may not even know his name, to write letters of reference. Some schools require essays on a senior's scholastic plans, or on himself. Says a Harvard senior about his autobiography: "The damn thing almost gave me an identity crisis. I sweated...