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Never in Doubt? Inasmuch as Washington and Hanoi had done nothing more than select a place to talk about talks, the reaction was disproportionately euphoric. On Wall Street, the Dow-Jones industrial average spurted 11.91 points before receding during an 18 million-share day. In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield cried: "Excellent, excellent! The ice jam has been broken." "This is the best news I have heard for a long time," said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant...
...Role. On the U.S. side, the biggest initial problems were logistical, the number of troops available and the lack of U.S. troops' experience in a counterinsurgency environment. To build a logistical base to support over half a million men has been a herculean task. We now have six instead of one deep-water ports, eight instead of three jet-capable airfields. Air supply has been developed until I am sure it is the most efficient in history. As far as troop strength is concerned, we had to use fire-brigade tactics until late 1966, when we were strong enough...
...Russians also fear that Dubček will turn to the West for the economic aid that he badly needs. Thus a prime topic of conversation during Dubček's visit to Moscow was an unusual Soviet offer of $300 million or more worth of credit in hard currency. Dubček will no doubt gladly take the money, but he is also eager to make sure that the Russians do not revert from the carrot to the stick and cut off the oil and raw-material shipments upon which his country depends. As a hedge against...
...Hurry. The U.S. has kept meticulously silent over events in Czechoslovakia for fear of further embarrassing Dubček before his Communist neighbors. Last week, though, the State Department said that it was watching the liberalization with "interest and sympathy," even expressed willingness to reopen talks about $20 million worth of Czechoslovak gold confiscated from the Nazis toward the end of World War II. The U.S. has refused to return the bullion without some compensation for $72 million in American properties that the Communists nationalized in 1948. At week's end, the Dubček regime rebuffed the offer...
...ignore the fact that he is utterly dependent on the biosphere: a vast web of interacting processes and organisms that form the rhythmic cycles and food chains in which one part of the living environment feeds on another. The biosphere is no immutable feature of the earth. Roughly 400 million years ago, terrestrial life consisted of some primitive organisms that consumed oxygen as fast as green plants manufactured it. Only by some primeval accident were the greedy organisms buried in sedimentary rock (as the source of crude oil, for example), thus permitting the atmosphere to become enriched to a life...