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FIRE IN THE LAKE by Frances Fitz-Gerald. Vietnamese life seen in a historical context that makes the war seem more hopeless and foolish than ever...
Already, there is surprisingly strong feeling among many political and intellectual figures in Saigon that a ceasefire is imminent and that Thieu's position is hopeless. "Thieu is finished," contends an anti-Communist Vietnamese scholar. "He was, perhaps, the man for war. He is not the man for peace. We must have a new man." Agrees Ly Quy Chung, a deputy in the South Vietnamese lower house: "We must prepare for the new political struggle. We must have a new team and not the one that has lost the war, or they will lose again." The battle for political...
...When the bubble breaks, it breaks, and it's sure broken now," he said. "We've had it this year. We're dead. Only our top five men are competitive, but our bottom guys can't play worth a darn and the freshman team is hopeless...
...BANAL AS ALL this must surely sound, there is no reason for it to appear any more or less hopeless than any other Truffaut plot. Like others it is simple; like others it is conventional. But where formerly Truffaut could somehow turn the seemingly uninteresting into the surprisingly charming, Two English Girls turns out to be quite as vapid as you would expect...
...Your cover picture "The Two Americas" shows the bias of your journalism. The pictures inside President Nixon's outline on the cover show Wall Street, China and the happy well-to-do. Senator McGovern's outline shows war. hopeless-looking minorities and the poor...