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...obvious target lay right down Route 9?Tchepone, a Communist staging area and a key control point for the Ho Chi Minh Trail 25 miles inside the Laotian panhandle. A second possibility was that ARVN troops would be helicoptered to the mountainous Bolovens Plateau, which forms the western flank of the trail. Their likely objective: Attopeu and Saravane, two Laotian river towns captured last spring by North Vietnamese troops, apparently in an effort to secure the trail's flanks and provide a starting point for a riverine route into Cambodia...
FEARS OF FINLANDIZATION. Brandt concedes that a secure flank in Western Europe would allow Moscow to concentrate on its tense, 4,000-mile frontier with China. He is also aware that the Soviets have not discarded their longtime goal of dislodging the U.S. from Europe, driving a wedge between Washington and its West European allies and supplanting the postwar Pax Americana with a Pax Sovietica. The Soviets have insistently called for a conference on European security that would include all European countries, the U.S. and Canada. Some Western experts suspect that Moscow's purpose is only to have the European...
...course, about to embrace the Democratic liberals or make a willy-nilly alliance with the G.O.P. left. For the sake of both appearances and tactics, the President must hold his right flank. Among the first politicians he saw after the election were leaders of Senator-elect James Buckley's New York Conservative Party. Last week Spiro Agnew was still refighting the campaign, arguing that the only mistake was that "we undersold our message...
...symbolic vulnerability propels her to suicide, while Rheinhardt's apathy naturally puts him back on the road to nowhere. It is no secret that virulent ideas infect the U.S. at both extremes of the political spectrum. The Newmans have chosen to level their attack on the right flank; they should have confined their battle to the hustings. To paraphrase a hoary Hollywood adage, messages ought to be sent by Western Union, not fictitious radio stations...
Privately, Ottinger has written off Goodell, turning his campaign artillery instead to his right flank, where Buckley, crew-cut and charming, poses a growing threat...