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Another plan comes from Arthur M. Cox, a congressional candidate in New Hampshire, who at various times has pondered the problems of Viet Nam for the State Department, the CIA and the Brookings Institution. His scheme calls for a cease-fire only after thorough negotiations have settled all the ground rules of deescalation. The sequence would then be a ceasefire, the withdrawal of all external forces, both allied and North Vietnamese, and the substantial demobilization of Viet Cong and South Vietnamese army forces. The process, he believes, would require at least two years. Overseeing it would be an international peace...
...know that it was safe or opportune to begin withdrawing troops, and how many to retain in South Viet Nam? It would be splendid, of course, to have clear-cut answers to such questions. But the war itself has been messy and formless, and the from-the-ground-up solution might reflect Vietnamese realities to a much greater extent than the alternatives. At this juncture, it is difficult to imagine the Thieu government or the Communists agreeing to work together in a larger political process. One of the two might do so if it felt that the odds of settlement...
Last week, in fact, Washington stiffened its attitude toward Hanoi and showed that, for the time being, President Johnson appears determined to stick to the U.S.'s full commitment to South Viet Nam. Over the past few weeks, as a lull in ground fighting continued, critics of the war have argued with increasing volume that the lull constituted Hanoi's concession toward peace. As a reciprocal step toward deescalation, they insist, the U.S. should halt all bombing of the North. Last week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and President Johnson flatly rejected the notion that North Viet...
...hours of daily exposure, year in and year out, to the din of the proverbial boiler factory would eventually result in permanent, irreversible hearing loss. Riveters were particularly susceptible. Then they learned that the same thing happened to aviators. And after the advent of jets, the hazard applied to ground crews at airports and flight-deck personnel aboard aircraft carriers-hence the introduction of insulated, noise-absorbing plastic earmuffs...
...retrospective look at the film resulting not so much in our remembering hints dropped conspicuously in early scenes as places where Chabrol didn't cheat. When Jacqueline the secretary types up the letter of transfor turning Paul's name over to Christine, she is shown in screen-left fore-ground in focus, with Paul and Christine out of focus in the background. Our eyes watch Paul and Christine because we think that they are more important; when we realize later that Jacqueline's seeing the deed provided the motivation for the final killing, we also remember that Chabrol did show...