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During the three weeks since Lyndon Johnson imposed geographic restrictions on the bombing of North Viet Nam as a means to induce negotiations, the Administration has been frustrated on two counts. The North Vietnamese, while benefiting from the curb on raids north of the 20th parallel, have mounted an intensive propaganda campaign designed to denigrate the U.S. peace initiative...
While the South Vietnamese braced themselves to bear heavier burdens in the war, the North Vietnamese felt, at least temporarily, a great weight lifted from their shoulders. In the three weeks since President Johnson announced his partial bombing pause, life north of the 20th parallel-where 90% of the North Vietnamese live and where the U.S. has ceased attacking-has taken on a new and freer rhythm. After three years of fairly steady air strikes by U.S. planes, the North Vietnamese, though still basically too cautious to change the mode of life that they have devised to counter...
...began at the age of eight, when he sat down at her typewriter and pecked out his first story, beginning: "The tribe of Bum-Bums looked very solemn as they sat around their cosy cave fire." Even with this early start, his writing career lagged three years behind his parallel interest in cartooning and painting: he had had a collage published in a children's magazine when he was five...
Except for Item 2, there are obviously parallel charges that can be leveled at the excessive use of alcohol. But Giordano declares: "Surely it is not valid to justify the adoption of a new vice by trying to show that it is no worse than a presently existing...
...rules all the potential claimants in a class action are bound by the results unless they make a timely request not to be included. Courts therefore take careful precautions to be sure that the individual in the case will adequately represent the general cause and that his interests clearly parallel those of the entire class. Eisen's case was the first major Court of Appeals test of the new rules, and the Second Circuit held that the district judge erred in refusing to accept Eisen's suit as a class action. In so doing, the court emphasized that...