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Every war undergoes an autopsy. Even before the last guns are silenced, military experts start examining each thrust, parry and feint of the armies on the battlefields, hoping to discover a yet unknown tactic or a new strategic wrinkle. Post-mortems on the latest Middle East war have begun. Computers at NATO'S Brussels headquarters, for example, are being fed data from the war that, according to a NATO spokesman, will "test whether the battle effectiveness of some weapons has changed...
...Moscow, where he began a series of private meetings over the Middle East crisis with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Kissinger had spent much of the week with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington, but he managed to cover his departure with a typical, though perhaps inevitable, Kissinger feint; he spent the evening at a glittering dinner party hosted by Huang Chen, the head of China's liaison office in Washington. That affair had been planned as a send-off for Kissingers scheduled trip to Peking early this week; actually, he had already postponed that journey for at least...
Despite the intelligence forecasts, the location and timing of the attack caught the military men in Saigon and Washington off guard. When the first North Vietnamese troops appeared below the DMZ, Pentagon experts assumed that it was a feint. The main offensive, they believed, would come in the vulnerable Central Highlands. Not until the eve of Easter Sunday, four days after the beginning of the massive artillery barrage, was it clear that a major assault was under...
...Doctor Zhivago. The film makers occasionally comply, albeit inadvertently, as when Schaffner stages the obligatory scene of Mad Monk Rasputin wenching it up in a haystack, or when Goldman has Nikolai Vladimir Ilich Lenin grouse, "Well, Stalin has been exiled to Siberia again." There is even an occasional feint at topical significance. Count Witte (Laurence Olivier), trying to persuade Nicholas (Michael Jayston) to halt the Russo-Japanese War, says, "I'm advising you to stop a hopeless war." Replies the Czar: "The Russia my father gave me never lost...
Cambodia has been helped immeasurably, of course, by the North Vietnamese pullback from populated areas into the northeast and east. South Vietnamese troops continued to engage NVA forces along the Cambodia-South Viet Nam border last week, but the operation was viewed largely as a feint in connection with the South's elections. Cambodians are still not happy with the large presence of Vietnamese-from both the North (60,000 troops) and the South (10,000)-on their soil. There have been widespread reports of terrorism, rape, murder and pillaging by South Vietnamese. In an interview with TIME Correspondent...