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Recognized Phantoms. When the West broke off in disgust for "a day of grace," the Communists baited the trap a little: Molotov agreed that three separate armistice commissions could be formed. This meant that France would have to accord tacit recognition to the phantom Communist regimes of Laos and Cambodia as members of the armistice commissions, but the hungry French called it progress. The U.S. diagnosis:"This session got nowhere...
...strategic delta is one of the world's most densely populated areas; in this flat alluvial plain live 7,000,000 people. A phantom Red army of some 90,000 guerrillas already controls at least two-thirds of the delta by day, almost all of it by night. The 2,000 French-Vietnamese forts there are atolls in a seeming...
Susannah Martin, the Salem fathers believed, was every inch a witch. She sent the devil into cattle, raised phantom puppies and came into the house dry out of a drenching rainstorm. She was therefore hanged on Gallows Hill in 1692, the year of the great Salem witch trials...
...queen alighted, sped into the city, and, feeling estranged, could not quite believe she was there. "This city and Paris." she wrote in her diary, "were not linked together like two elements belonging to the same system ... I felt invisible to every look. Mine was the incognito of a phantom." Within 48 hours she found a catalyst to materialize her: she went to the hairdresser. There she noted the comforting fact: "These places are the same in every town...
Object of Horror. Comedy took matters a stage further. Dr. Breuer became so fascinated by Anna's hysteria that Mrs. Breuer grew madly jealous. So Breuer stopped seeing Anna, who promptly flew into "the throes of an hysterical childbirth, the logical termination of a phantom pregnancy that had been invisibly developing in response to Breuer's ministrations...