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Should this occur, the United States would find itself facing guerrilla problems spreading out from the original focal point in Bolivia, and would be forced to send special forces adviors to aid these governments in suppressing the rebellions--as it now has done in Bolivia...
...Focal Point. The battle won, drivers could pass unworried along Route 4, and trucks piled with rice, hogs, chickens and vegetables streamed toward Saigon. But the traffic was not nearly enough. Twenty-five miles farther south of Route 4 lies another major artery that is still clogged by Viet Cong terrorism. It is the 30-mile Mang Thit-Nicolai canal, which is the main waterway between the ricelands of the Delta and the rest of Viet Nam. Until only a few years ago, it was one of the country's busiest canals; the villages on its banks were among...
...tried walking two blocks toward the focal point of the riot, but "the eyes of the residents on their front porches seemed to radiate hatred. It was like walking through a corridor of statues with the kind of eyes that follow you wherever you go. Later I grew more confident and strolled the area with impunity-more or less. I made about seven trips among the rioters, perhaps to reassure myself that all this was really happening...
...star of the film is clearly the chorus; and the whole production seems to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sing beautifully together and are right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, is unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert is the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapts most effectively the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
...Having discovered myself cited by you as an example of "this curious double standard" on Viet Nam and the Middle East [June 9], may I point out that Viet Nam and the Middle East are two different situations, the former marginal, the latter focal to our interests...