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...Kahn bluntly calls it Balkanization. It would begin with what the Asia Society's Kenneth T. Young calls a "patchwork of local negotiations" in which warring Communists and non-Communists in a small area would come to terms, make their own local truces and work out their own modus vivendi for governing their localities. Viet Nam is in fact less a nation than an assembly of separatist, often fiercely competitive sects and peoples, such as the Hoa Hao, the Cao Dai, the Montagnards and, of course, the Catholics and Buddhists. Granting such subsocieties home rule would strengthen local government...
...weeks ago I would have said that was real hope that a civilian leadership could be brought into power and could reach a modus operandi with the National Liberation Front; that they could set upadministrative procedures whereby the country could be shared until such time as a full South Vietnam government could be elected...
...dash for cover is part of every man's routine. "It's a modus vivendi," says Protestant Chaplain Ray Stubbe, 29. "The men run for shelter, but they don't cringe when they get there." Except for an occasional case of what the corpsmen call "acute environmental reaction" (shell shock), the Marines at Khe Sanh are taking their ordeal with considerable composure. Only their unwelcome bunkermates-the rats-be come frantic under fire. When the "in coming" starts, the rats race for the bunkers and wildly run up to the ceilings made of runway matting and logs...
Haese's rise to fame is all the more surprising because he so sedulously refuses to court it. The son of a Kiel mechanical engineer, he moved to Düsseldorf to study at its prestigious art school. While there, he immersed himself in Zen Buddhism, discovered his modus operandi during a meditation in 1960 when his watch shattered into pieces. Today he, his wife, his nine-year-old son and their uncaged parakeet live in a Düsseldorf public housing project. Haese insists on keeping the apartment so clean that the entire family removes its shoes before...
Washington Rumblings. Regardless of the enemy's motives, modus operandi, or misinformation, the U.S. high command believes it has the winning combination for the main-force, frontier type of war. It has only been in the past year and a half that U.S. forces have been able to put sustained pressure on the Communists, Westmoreland points out. Previously, the massive logistic base to supply the troops had to be established in a primitive country. Yet in that time, Westmoreland asserts that many of the enemy units have been pushed back to the frontiers, or prevented from crossing them. Large...