Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completely is difficult?all the more so because so many American lives have been invested in it. But it has become clear that such a reversal is now necessary if Nixon is to retrieve the situation in Viet Nam. Ultimately, the South Vietnamese will have to bear the major part of their own military and political burdens...
...Judiciary Committee hearing was routine, Floor discussion was for the most part amiable, taking only a scant three hours last week before the Senate voted 74 to 3 to approve the nomination of Warren Earl Burger as Chief Justice of the United States. He will be sworn in when the Supreme Court concludes its current term...
Even more frustrating for general officers is the fact that they do not even have official control of the troops under their command. West Germany has no operational general staff, and all its strategic plans and commands come from NATO headquarters in Belgium. Unlike other NATO powers, which allot part of their armed forces to NATO but keep command of the remainder, every single West German combat unit is under NATO command. Although a number of West German officers are mixed in with other allied officers in the NATO command structure, in practical terms the Bundeswehr is an extension...
...simmering in Ulster. This is the week of Eire's national elections. If that were not enough, June 16 is Bloomsday. It is a good time to reflect on the ways and woes of the Irish, and TIME asked Novelist Wilfrid Sheed to do so. Sheed is only part Irish (on his father's family's side). But as an English Catholic schoolboy and an American writer of quality (Square's Progress, The Blacking Factory and Pennsylvania Gothic), he has had the opportunity and inclination to observe the Irish, fondly and sharply, for years...
Pessimism may be the last part of the heritage to go. The Irish are leary of hope look at where it got them in the past! But no one under 50 takes refuge in the Patriot Game any more, that truculent dirge over Ireland's glorious failures...