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Calm Determination. The President laid emphasis on the political stability -frail as it is-that U.S. diplomacy has encouraged in South Viet Nam over the past two years. "As I am talking to you here," he said, "a freely elected constituent assembly in Saigon is wrestling with the last details of a new constitution." Appropriately, Ky planned to take a copy of the new constitution with him to Guam for the President's perusal (see THE WORLD...
Jackie, thinks Conniff, was anxious to combat the barrage of unfavorable publicity caused by William Manchester's book The Death of a President. "She's a fighter for all her frail beauty," he maintains. During the Manchester episode, she called Conniff several times for advice; in turn, he asked for a favor: the interview. An old friend of both Jack and Joe Kennedy, Conniff was hardly likely to be hostile. Jackie imposed no conditions on him, as she had on Manchester, nor did she ask to read the copy ahead of time. "She trusted us not to make...
...Peace Corps booklocker and strugble to define the attitudes their new new existence has forced onto them. Ken Kressel who served in the Ivory Coast called for a Peace Corps philosophy of dullness appropriate to the environment. "No crashing of guns, no bombing of heavy seas against our frail ship, no firm resolution in the face of death. But instead--an English classroom, a hot African town, and the relative pronouns 'who' and 'whom'" he wrote in the Voulnteer. A rather different point of view from The Barrios of Manta, but then, the Peace Corps is 10,000 individuals...
...First Amendment and its main reliance on a toughening of the A.B.A.'s Canon 20, which has rarely if ever been enforced since it was written in 1908 to prevent lawyers from publicly discussing pending cases. Unhappily for Medina's hopes, Canon 20 may be a frail reed: all efforts to reform it over the past decade have failed. Reform seems more likely by the imposition of court rules, even though Medina called it "unwise...
...Could Be." If the optimism had any visible attachment to fact, it was by a frail thread of innuendo spun by Hanoi's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh in an interview with Newsman Wilfred Burchett, an Australian-born Communist, who has long been a mouthpiece for Asian Reds but has been more attuned to the Moscow line than to that of Peking. The key to Trinh's position was his well-hedged sentence: "It is only after the unconditional cessation of U.S. bombing and all other acts of war against the DRV [Democratic Republic of Viet Nam] that...