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...enemy. U.S. Army Colonel Harry Summers Jr., who considers Viet Nam "a tactical success and a strategic failure," was in Hanoi on a negotiating mission a few days before Saigon fell. Summers recalls telling a North Vietnamese colonel, "You know, you never defeated us on the battlefield." The foe's reply: "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant." In essence, the U.S. was outlasted by an enemy that proved able and willing to fight longer than America and its South Vietnamese allies...
...Vietnam. In debating the correctness of our involvement there, successive Administration managed nearly to ignore the actual situation in that complicated little country where the odds were heavily stacked against a successful U.S. intervention. Insisted on using Vietnam as an arena in which to demonstrate to friend and foe alike our readiness to resist communism anywhere and everywhere in the world. In addition, foreign servicemen, bureaucrats and lawmakers all backed this position not for its merits, which were few, our of concern lest they be branded soft on communism. Likewise, last week's issue wasn't about...
...reason for the friendly welcome is that relations between the Administration and union leaders could hardly get worse; the AFL-CIO threw its support behind Democrat Walter Mondale more than a year before last November's election, and Reagan successfully blasted his foe as a captive of such "special interests." Furthermore, Donovan, a former New Jersey construction-company executive, had done little to build a smoother relationship. Repeatedly under investigation, and finally indicted on fraud and larceny charges last October, he was too preoccupied to be effective. Although Reagan defended Donovan to the end, many of the President's aides...
...week and presented the good news to a waiting Allan Boesak: he had been cleared of adultery charges and fully reinstated as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church. The ecclesiastical council's judgment had been anxiously awaited both in South Africa, where Boesak is the most articulate foe of apartheid among the country's "colored" (mixed-race) population, and internationally. He is president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, with a constituency of 50 million Protestants...
Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida, a dedicated foe of what he terms "the imperial former presidency," introduced legislation last year that would phase out protection for former Presidents five years after they leave office. He would also like to limit what the Government chips in for presidential libraries and for ex-Chief Executives' offices and staffs. Says Chiles: "I think President Nixon's announcement is the best news we've had. His example is a good one for other past Presidents to follow, but we need to make it law." A spokesman for Ford said the ex-President anticipates that...