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...standstill. One bored briefer at U.S. military headquarters in Viet Nam complains that the daily press release has been reduced practically to a single sentence: "Yesterday, U.S. aircraft flew B-52 missions in the Republic of Viet Nam during the 24-hour period ending at noon today." The lull may mean that the war is effectively over, or it may be a kind of caesura in the apparently endless alternation of dry-season offensives and rainy-season resupply. In Saigon now, a vital concern is whether the South Vietnamese economy can be made less dependent on U.S. aid; early this...
...lull followed as the conference waited for the revised resolution on George Jackson. Suddenly a frail woman rushed the mike and branded the discussion of the Jackson statement "tasteless and obscene." "A man has been killed," she screamed. "Do we think that our sentiments are so goddamned important?" Staggering in shock, the clergy and laymen retreated into sorrowful prayer. One of the few blacks in the room--a woman--began softly: "We Shall Overcome...
Whenever The Dice Man lapses into missionary zealotry, prepare for rampant naiveté. Anarchy is not the joyous freedom that Rhinehart takes it to be, nor does the cure for civilization's discontents lie in an idolatry. However, the book could be a boon to games-minded hostesses. During a lull at the next party, try serving dice in the martinis...
...role of Winston's mother, Jennie. Suddenly by the sheerest coincidence some real McCoys showed up: Member of Parliament Winston Churchill, grandson of the great man, and his son Randolph made their appearance to watch the filming of a battle scene. Commented young Randolph during a lull in the sound effects: "I suppose they have run out of caps." . . . Halfway round the world, in Burbank, Calif., Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger took a brief vacation from his duties at the Western White House in San Clemente to visit another movie set with his children,* Elizabeth, 12, and David, 10. After...
...Created Lull. Despite such hit-and-run attacks, Ulster's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, whose seizure of some 300 suspected I.R.A. members and other activists two weeks ago had provoked four days of rioting, maintained that his action had checked the terrorism. The I.R.A., however, took full credit for the apparent pause. "There is a lull that we've created ourselves," said one I.R.A. member. "We have refused to be pushed into a corner where we have to fight on British terms...