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...words, "the unconditional cessation of the U.S. bombing raids and all other acts of war" against the North before going on to other subjects. The U.S., in turn, is certain to demand some reciprocal gesture from Hanoi, though the Administration's bedrock definition of reciprocity is still in flux. Saigon, for example, wants an international control mechanism to be established to ensure credible verification of any violations if Hanoi agrees to reduce or halt its infiltration in exchange for a bombing halt. In any case, Harriman has reviewed every imaginable contingency with President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean...
...Piet-like quest to recapture the past. Nostalgia suffuses him, goads him, at times frightens him. At home, in Ipswich, Mass., Updike spends hours leafing through boyhood photograph albums. "I find old photographs powerful," he says. "There's a funny thing about the way the flux of time was halted at this particular spot. You just can't get back...
Before Tet, CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support) estimated that 82% of the population of 5.3 million lived in secure hamlets, some 13% in contested hamlets and only a scant 5% under hardcore Viet Cong hegemony. "We're still in a state of flux concerning recent losses or gains," says CORDS Deputy John P. Vann. "We're not sure what resulted from drawing in over 6,000 R.D. cadre and some of the regional and popular forces to province and district towns." But the estimates are that Communist real estate and population gains will be small...
...district, represented for 15 years by the late J. Arthur Younger, a conservative Republican, is in a state of demographic flux. Though the sunny "peninsula," as San Mateo County is called, is populated largely by well-to-do, conservative-leaning commuters to San Francisco, nearby Stanford University exerts a liberalizing influence, and subdivisions have attracted a big influx of blue-collar workers...
...desire. I like the connection of the human body with natural, unadorned things, with lakes, especially with rivers, with trees, also with clouds--also with animals and birds. That seems to be restorative and life-giving; it seems to key the human being in bodily sense with the flux of existence. . . . My interest is in man as a very simple hunting and food-gathering, hopefully tribal creature...