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...reader feels a certain sympathy for these lofty wretches. Since they are not very likable or high-minded or deserving, but simply very human, this says a good deal for Ward Just's skill. There is not the slightest hint that the author has enrolled real people under fake names and with different hair colors. A laudable break with Washington literary tradition...
PRESIDENT BOK'S June statement gave the Right an opening not to be ignored. The statement, although filled with weighty language, qualifications and hesitations, clearly marked a turn in Administration policy. Conservative Bill Buckley caught the hint right away: one of his nationally syndicated columns a week after the speech obliquely praised its content, expressing pleasure that Bok, hitherto thought to be a "trendy" person, "might give us back our ROTC...
...want them arrested," Giarrusso told the Secret Service, "then you arrest them. We have no grounds." Instead he agreed to keep close watch on all six suspects, and the Secret Service obtained arrest authorizations for the six from a U.S. magistrate, making pickups possible at the slightest hint of trouble. But the six suspects made no moves to carry out any action against Nixon, and there was doubt that they had ever intended...
...mood of the entire 5,000-man force at Korat was surprisingly calm and matter of fact. On the flightline, the only hint of festivity came when the ground crew presented the two pilots with brass loops from their bomb racks as souvenirs. Known as "golden rings," the loops were part of the device that armed the last of their "general purpose" bombs...
Even the U.S. embassy, once the font of optimism in Phnom-Penh, is now playing a waiting game. It no longer talks of reform governments, reorganization of the army, or bright new pacification measures. Gone too is the hint that substantive negotiations are under way. In fact, U.S. sources now openly worry whether the Lon Nol regime can survive the ending of U.S. bombing this week. If in the weeks ahead it does manage to survive, then the insurgents might be tempted to start negotiations. But for the moment Cambodia's existence depends on the force of arms...