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DIED. Alexandra Tolstoy, 95, last surviving daughter of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. The eleventh of Tolstoy's twelve children and a favorite of his, "Sasha" became her father's secretary at 17 and executor of his will in 1910. She never married because, she said, "I didn't want to exchange my father for someone else." After working as a nurse on the front lines of World War I, she became active in anti-Bolshevik intellectual circles, and was arrested five times and jailed for a year. In 1931 she immigrated...
...military seems to be coping well enough with the pregnancy problem. Few officers think it has much effect on efficiency, and most seem ready with a stiff-upper-lip comment. Says one American general in Germany: "It has never impacted on readiness." Rear Admiral Hogg thinks the Navy is just as shipshape with mothers on board. Says he: "The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman...
...build bridges to dissident students and professors, the acid exchanges with South Viet Nam's leaders as a peace treaty drew near, and the angry threat from Nixon that finally brought Saigon around. The memoirs describe Kissinger's painful falling-out with Nixon and his decision-never acted upon because Watergate intervened-to resign from public office some time...
Nixon dropped the subject after ten minutes and never returned to it. In retrospect I believe that we should have taken it more seriously. The bane of our military actions in Viet Nam throughout was their hesitancy and inconclusiveness...
Nixon set a June 30 cutoff date for the Cambodian incursion. Eventually, 32,000 U.S. ground troops were involved. But, Kissinger says, casualties "never reached more than a quarter of the 800 a week that Laird had feared," and dropped sharply after that. At the time, Kissinger estimated that the action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse...