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Will the North Vietnamese try to help the Southern Communists gain full power, even at the risk of reopening the hostilities? High officials in the White House think not???at least not for five years, and what happens after that is impossible to predict. These U.S. analysts contend that the North Vietnamese have been so badly battered by the bombing and other punishments of war that they will have enough trouble rebuilding their own land. Other Southeast Asia experts, including many who opposed the U.S. war effort, believe that the war has so completely exhausted both sides that the Vietnamese...
...investigators and wiretaps. To accomplish his goal, Colombo tapped deepseated, legitimate grievances among Italian Americans and ? shocking editorial writers and Mob capos alike?jumped into press conferences and picket lines. He sought to make Cosa Nostra private once more by turning any derision of Italian Americans?Mafiosi or not???into a cause for public censure. It was a radical notion that more traditional Mafia leaders could not have imagined and, in the end, could not countenance...
Morita is acutely aware?as many Japanese leaders still are not???of the intense foreign anger provoked by Japan's closed-door policy at home and invasion of markets abroad. Although he expects U.S. protectionism to fade eventually as business improves, he fears that Japanese-American relations temporarily will get worse. That is one of the more optimistic views among the experts; many foresee a long period of mounting resentment, tension and perhaps outright hostility leading to swiftly rising trade barriers and exchange controls...
...here" with violence. Procaccino also knows that large segments of the working class and middle class are weary of idealistic reformers who somehow manage to cast the ordinary white man in the fall guy's role. Even politicians who are not racist?as Procaccino and Marchi are not???can capitalize on this sentiment. Candidates can be swept into office solely on its strength. Circumstances vary from region to region, but some of the same factors appear. Thus Detective Charles Stenvig finds himself the mayor of Minneapolis, and Sam Yorty was re-elected in Los Angeles for no other discernible reason...
...not???as the run on shirts, socks and underwear, the appearance of thousands of haggard employees and the empty spaces at 30% of the desks and workbenches throughout the city amply proved. With few exceptions, New Yorkers the morning after could fully appreciate the sign that appeared in the window of a littered midtown Automat: PARDON OUR APPEARANCE...