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Nonetheless, its basic strategy is suggested by a Lou Harris poll showing that only 49% of the voters currently approve Lyndon Johnson's handling of the war, v. 66% in December. This does not by any means suggest that the argument will resemble the familiar dove-hawk controversy. Many Republican campaigners will undoubtedly urge intensified bombing of North Viet Nam, particularly "source" targets in the Hanoi-Haiphong industrial complex, which have been spared on the President's orders. The Administration may also be criticized for not calling up the reserves-or, if they have been mobilized by November...
...Speaking neither as a "hawk" nor a "dove" but simply as an American, I say that we have a job to do in Viet Nam, and the only way to do it is to get with it! Let us stop diddling around with unilateral and unnecessary concessions to the enemy...
...features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing the coach, and breathlessly spieling, World Almanac-slye: "This is only the third time in a Hawk-Rocket game that a safety man of Polish extraction has broken both legs on the 20-yard line...
...inquirers divided about evenly along dove-hawk lines, but what struck the Time Inc. contingent was the degree of knowledge, curiosity and realism displayed by the scholars. Said Heiskell: "What a group of bright, articulate youngsters. They could hold their own anywhere in the world...
...pristine, sun-blanched wasteland; today it is a frenetic modern port that rivals Charleston's in size. There, last week, building supplies, ammunition and barrels of fuel were stacked endlessly on the beaches near rows of new ware houses and barracks. On a flattened hilltop, antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from combat taxied down on a new 10,000-ft. runway. "When we landed last June," said Colonel William F. Hart of the 35th Engineers Group, "there was one pier here and that...