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...come the same way. The agreement laboriously worked out between Washington and Hanoi still faces many pitfalls. A cease-fire should be achieved soon, but the vast complexities of the proposed settlement, President Thieu's resistance, the maneuvering and counter-maneuvering for political control in Viet Nam, the pent-up bitterness and distrust?all these may still mean protracted trouble and even renewed bloodshed. Yet last week Henry Kissinger proclaimed: "Peace is at hand." At long last the U.S. could really count on the end of the conflict. That prospect makes it appropriate for the U.S. once again to assess...
...most part, the aides do little but try to suggest that it is normal to be upset; listening sympathetically, they let the survivors "ventilate" their pent-up emotions and relive, verbally, their traumatic experiences. Cases of serious disturbance, however, are referred to psychologists and psychiatrists at the nearest regular office of the mental health department, 15 miles away. Typical of the seriously disturbed patients under treatment...
...that "I had been prepared to defend," said Chief Presidential Economist Herbert Stein. When the consumer price index for December was released last week, Stein still felt comfortable. The nation's basic cost-of-living measure rose .4%. Though high for a month, it showed that inflationary pressure pent up during the freeze was less than expected. Moreover the rise in consumer prices for all of 1971 was 3.4%-lower than in any year since 1967, when the increase...
...calmly and without fear. Most people went about their usual business - offices were open, rickshas running and pushcarts plying. The sweet tea of the street stalls drew the same gabby old fellows with white beards. The mood of the overwhelming majority of Bengalis was less one of apprehension than pent-up anticipation. Said one Bengali journalist: "Now we know how the Parisians felt when the Allies were approaching...
...woman and a goat, the only survivors of a great flood. But the myth she emphasizes most, the myth of the god with two wives, of Zeus with Hera and Dione, is perhaps the one she wonders most about--partially because her father spent two years "pent up" with two women who loved him only a little more than they hated each other...