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...hear-no-evil posture and persuaded Thieu to have Ky put back on the ballot. But the move was too late and too transparent. There is a temptation, in fact, to paint Thieu as the archvillain of this drama, but it should be resisted. Thieu was as much the pawn of American policy as he was the spoiler...
...chances of recovering stolen bicycles, stereos, TVs, tape-players, typewriters, and appliances aren't as good, but they're much better if you supply the serial number to police. And it's smart to scratch your driver's license number on any valuables that don't have serial numbers. Pawn shops regularly report the serial numbers of new items; these are usually the only positive identification police have for recovered stolen goods...
...last China's Chairman Mao climbs out of his cocoon and extends the hand of friendship to America [April 26]. But watch it, "Mr. America." For too long you have been a pawn and political scapegoat at the hands of the Communist bloc. While the world awaits the sordid outcome in Viet Nam, the Communists are hunting with both the hare and the hounds. So before this friendship becomes a courtship, make doubly sure that your great space secrets are buried safely where "no rust, or moth can consume, or thieves steal...
...letter appeals to "those who don't regard the university as a pawn in the political struggles of the American Left" to vote for incumbent President Ginsberg, and states that the Davis petition is to some "a joke," and to others "a cheap way of being, or playing being, radical," and to others "an effort to use the University for their own political purposes...
Part victim, part protagonist, Didman drinks and fornicates his way through perversely comic and dreadful, nightmarish scenes, drifting toward a vision of his final destiny: he must become a self-willed pawn of the black-power movement. "Generals, politicians, princes_they killed in quest of power" he maunders to himself. "Why shouldn't an editor? Why shouldn't a middle-class family...