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...were reports that an answer had already arrived and was under study. A break could come at any time, but just when depended principally on two men: North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh and Lyndon Johnson. On the other hand, if the present initiative should prove fruitless, Johnson could continue through the end of his term without uttering another word about a bombing halt. Still, he must find it tantalizing to think of the impact he could create, on his way out of the White House, by making a major move to end the Viet...
...element of the U.S. 196th Light Infantry Brigade. Kham Due shaped up as the kind of set-piece battle that General William Westmoreland yearned for in the early days of the massive U.S. presence in Viet Nam, when so much of his military force was expended in fruitless hunts for an enemy refusing to stand and fight. But now set-piece battles are not welcome in Washington, because of the high rate of U.S. casualties that result from hand-to-hand combat...
...angry mood of black ghettos also makes it increasingly difficult for white academics to research ghetto problems. This may strike white professionals as backward and unreasonable, but it is a predictable response to decades of fruitless probings, and promises by whites, and also to painful contact with condescending school and welfare "experts." Black communities are demanding that black faces present the questionnaires...
Wallace's hopes of obtaining enough electoral votes to blackmail a major candidate into a "coalition government" will probably prove fruitless. If Nixon is the Republican nominee, Wallace's candidacy is most likely to result in Johnson's re-election. His racist campaign in the fall will only heighten tensions already intensified by a summer of unprecedented violence in the cities...
THIS week's anti-war fast is a fruitless exercise in political impotence. At a time when effective direct action is needed most and when opportunities for it are close at hand, 400 students have been sidetracked into participating in a useless mystic exorcism...