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...Hanoi to abet peace talks nor the possibility that the Communist forces were so shattered by their recent losses that they could not fight at all. Instead, there was every indication that the Communists were simply hiding out while they got resupplied for fresh offensives. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail poured a steady stream of North Vietnamese trucks, headlights brazenly ablaze in the night. The infiltration of men from the North is running far above the usual estimates of 6,000 to 6,500 a month-perhaps as much as twice that number. From February to mid-April...
...Russell, 95. There is enough of the stuff (150,000 items) to fill dozens of trunks-work sheets of Russell's milestone thought in philosophy and mathematics, his voluminous correspondence with such pen pals as Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Albert Einstein and Ho Chi Minh. Record price...
...United States, whatever concessions it makes to South Vietnam's Communists, is likely to insist on the military inviolability of frontiers throught-out Southeast Asia. Washington knows that the 1962 Laos agreement has been severely undermined by Hanoi's infiltration of troops and material along the Ho Chi Minh trail. More important, the State Department will probably feel compelled to vindicate the principle the President invoked in 1965 when he first sharply escalated the U.S. commitment in Vietnam. At that date, and with unswerving conviction ever since, the U.S. insisted that it only wanted the Communists to "leave their neighbors...
...Johnson's de-escalatory approach comes at a troublous time for allied ground forces in South Viet Nam. Two months after the Tet attacks, they are still largely on the defensive, and in many places in a virtual state of siege. In all probability-regardless of Ho Chi Minh's response, or nonresponse, to Johnson's new terms-U.S. forces in coming months will have to continue their effort to regain the initiative on the ground. South Viet Nam's major population centers are still gravely menaced...
...examines the confusion of accents in the city and how they unfailingly give away the speaker's social status. Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder visit "one of the last remaining Old World markers" under the elevated in East Harlem. Gloria Steinem re-creates the years that Ho Chi Minh spent in New York, when he worked as a waiter and laundryman. And a freelance reviewer, Clare Boothe Luce, discovers that John Kenneth Galbraith is a better economist than novelist when she reviews his first novel Triumph, about U.S. fumbling in a Latin American country...