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...baby was born with a stainless-steel spoon in its mouth. It is still there, full of creamed corn, held by Mom, who is plump and pretty. Dad stands slight ly to the rear, a large drink held confidently against an incipient paunch. As gathered by the lens of Bill Owens' cam era, the scene is a family portrait abounding in casual miracles...
Thieu gets the 'friendship' of your government; the Communists get the 'friendship' of those of you who don't like what your government does. Where do the Vietnamese people come in? Who is our friend? Yours sincerely, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Law '73 Hoang T. Ly, Harvard '76 Nguyen Thi Suong Hong, Harvard '75 Ho Hue Tam, GSAS 3 Pham Thi Hoa, East Asian Research Center
...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 control after a ceasefire, predicts a Saigon economist...
...hours of sleep as the train chugged back to the capital. At one point, Brandt seemed on the verge of nervous exhaustion; bags drooped under his eyes and the lines deepened in his face. Yet he never lost the magnetism that brought out roars of "Willy, Wil-ly!" from crowds. Toward the end of the campaign his energy snapped back, and there was no doubt that Brandt was confident of reelection...
...course a phony war, even though some Japanese diplomats re ceived threatening telephone calls, Taipei students burned a portrait of Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, and in one city, protesting doctors symbolical ly burned Japanese pharmaceuticals...