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...involved parties. For one thing, it would require each side to demonstrate its good faith in a succession of moves, rather than asking it to risk its position on a single bold stroke. For another, it would give U.S. fighting men time to initiate their ARVN replacements with firsthand experience?and keep providing, until the last phase, the most complicated kinds of battlefield assistance, especially air support...
...Room of the White House last week had just returned from a Time Inc. -sponsored News Tour of the Far East. They had come to report their observations and reactions to President Nixon - and the President and his guests questioned each other intently about the problems of Asia. From firsthand observation, the travelers were able to talk of the fighting in Viet Nam, trade difficulties with Japan, sniping across the DMZ in Korea, Communist insurgency in Thailand. Looking back, most of them agreed that perhaps the most pleasant days of the trip were spent in Malaysia, where they were entertained...
...heaviest blow to Egypt, though, was the loss of its "golden soldier" and Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Abdel Monem Riad, the most highly regarded officer in any Arab country. Artilleryman Riad had flown to Ismailia for a firsthand look at the shelling, when he was struck by what the Israelis termed a "lucky" direct hit. Perhaps as a mark of soldierly respect, the guns along the Suez were silent for Riad's funeral next day. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser led a parade of more than 100,000 mourners through Cairo, who broke into chants...
Using wire models, intuition, a limited knowledge of chemistry and trial-and-error methods, Researchers James Watson and Francis Crick determined that the heredity-transmitting DNA molecule is shaped like a spiral staircase. Al though they had no way of taking a firsthand look at their discovery, they managed to deduce a detailed description of the now famous "double helix" that paved the way for the new science of molecular biology and won them the Nobel Prize. For all the work that has been done in the field since Watson and Crick made their pioneering studies...
...smiles easily and speaks idiomatic English. He was reportedly picked for his job because he cultivated both party members (he is one) and scholars-two groups that do not always agree in Russia. Arbatov has, as he says, "done his homework" on the U.S. Currently he is doing some firsthand research by traveling in the U.S. and talking with journalists, businessmen (California's Norton Simon, Litton Industries' Charles-"Tex"-Thornton), and even U.S. Russia watchers (Columbia's Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harvard's Merle Fainsod). He participated in a discussion group of U.S. and Russian leaders...