Word: partial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...White Flags. There were signs that Johnson was wigwagging his open left hand as well as prominently displaying his clenched right fist. U.S. planes, having ranged as far as the 20th parallel after the President declared a partial bombing pause, last week went no farther north than the 19th parallel-a difference of nearly 70 miles. For its part, however, Hanoi offered no sign that it was prepared to make a reciprocal gesture...
Last year the Johnson Administration considered a partial pause-exempting the area north of the 20th parallel from bombardment-but military advice went against it. In subsequent testimony before the Senate's Preparedness Investigation Subcommittee, General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that he and his colleagues had "concluded unanimously that the concept was erroneous." There was no indication that the generals had changed their minds this year, and until recently it looked as if Johnson agreed with them. On Feb. 1, he depicted a grim situation if the U.S. stopped bombing: "The enemy force...
...point-of-view, lip-reading a conversation of Bowman and Poole deciding to dismantle him if the mistake is confirmed) suggests the potential of machine to control man, the ultimate reversal of roles in a situation where man makes machines in his own image. HAL's success is partial; he murders Poole, then three doctors on the ship in a state of induced hibernation. The murder of the sleeping doctors is filmed almost entirely as close-ups of electronically controlled charts, a pulsating coordination of respiration regulators, cardiographs, and encephalographs. HAL shuts his power off gradually and we experience...
...WORLD) before the Labor Government dared present it to Parliament. Had the IMF considered the British economic cutback too meager, it could have canceled the loan and so forced Britain at least to the brink of a second devaluation. The price Britain is paying for its profligacy is a partial loss of economic sovereignty to one of the most effective international organizations in history. Schweitzer considers it a badge of honor to have been denounced lately in Parliament. That, he says, is the kind of brickbat he usually wins only from backward countries...