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Even an early end to the Viet Nam war offers little immediate prospect for substantial savings. Former U.S. Budget Director Charles Schultze, now of the Brookings Institution, in Agenda for the Nation, effectively explodes the idea that the annual $29 billion that the war is now costing will be available for domestic needs. Working from an optimistic "scenario" that assumes an early end to the fighting and deactivation of some troops beginning in July, Schultze foresees no substantial reduction in military expenditures until 1971. Ordnance and munitions lines run on after any cessation of hostilities to rebuild depleted inventories...
...Viet Nam war has taught some lessons that should make the assessment somewhat easier. Washington is less likely to intervene in an unstable foreign country without much harder look at the military dimensions of the commitment. Taken to the extreme, this attitude could turn isolationism; as it is, it is probably a sign of a healthy national reevaluation. Talking about U.S. Pacific Edwin Reischauer, former Ambassador to Japan, that the U.S. adopt a "lower profile," or what the Japanese call a "low posture." None of this suggests that the U.S. should- r could- withdraw into a Fortress America...
...like Oliver Twist, ask for more. In the next 18 months, the probable area of savings-about $2 billion-is not enough to take care of the demands of the cities, of education and of welfare that could easily absorb the anticipated dividend from the end of the Viet Nam war. But to raise taxes in the interim might well impede the growth of the economy, on which the maintenance of prosperity depends, and with it the hope of improving American society. The President probably cannot lower military expenditures to the pre-Viet Nam figure of 1964 ($62.1 billion...
...have felt at the Chicago Convention that their efforts had come to naught, and they may be disillusioned with McCarthy's recent behavior; the fact is that their efforts played a considerable part in persuading Lyndon Johnson to withdraw from the election and seek peace in Viet Nam. The episode showed, among other things, that the most effective protest is not mindless violence and the shock tactics of obscenity, but disciplined, organized effort...
WHEN the history of the Viet Nam peace negotiations is written, posterity will probably look with astonishment on what has proved to be the most important procedural obstacle to getting down to substantive business: the shape of the table at which the participants sit. For ten weeks of often absurd haggling, the parties in Paris-the U.S., South Viet Nam, North Viet Nam and the National Liberation Front-have argued about whether the table at which to discuss a settlement of the Viet Nam war should be square, oblong, rectangular, oval or any number of imaginative mutations. Last week, after...