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...this a genuine lull, or had the Communists been hurt so badly by Abrams' successful tactics that they were merely pulling back to regroup, as they have done so often in the past? Many in the Johnson Administration seemed willing to interpret the lull as a deliberate signal from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese wanted to move on to a new phase in the Paris peace negotiations. A minority, centered in the Pentagon but also including Rostow and Rusk, held out in the absence of firm and far-reaching North Vietnamese concessions. Said one U.S. diplomat: "I have always...
...same attitude in evaluating the signs of reduced military activity in the South. The North Vietnamese pullback could merely reflect the impact of recent allied military successes, but the fact remains that Hanoi has never before withdrawn troops on so large a scale. Why not, ask some officials, interpret this move as a signal that Hanoi is attempting to offer reciprocity for a bombing pause? If this is not a signal, they ask further, what...
...citizens are striving to shape a society which truly champions the dignity and worth of the individual." Perhaps with the court's Senate critics in mind, he traced the history of the amendment arguing that it was the original intention of Congress to have the court interpret and enforce its guarantees-Warren said that the court has for too many years had "sole responsibility for giving content and meaning to the broad mandate of the 14th Amendment." He welcomed "the new willingness" of Congress and the President to share in the task through civil rights legislation. Pointing out that...
...Ford said, decided in this case to interpret "instructional responsibility" to mean "grading." And only graduate students--not the undergraduate sectionmen--will be responsible for grading. This was also the Department's decision...
JOHN LENNON claims that the Beatles' songs do not carry any messages and says he resents people who try to interpret them in that way. Neverheless, his latest song, 'Revolution', is so explicily and brutally to the point that one cannot help but sense a morning in it--and be painfully startled by this particular message. The song is a vicious and unqualified rejection of politics-in-the-street and its inevitable aspects of violence and disorder--a style that has been practiced supremely in the recent pass in France and at Chicago...