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Each year, 160,000 U.S. men die from coronary-artery disease before the age of 70. Many doctors have suspected for some time that a good number of them could prolong their lives by changing their eating habits-but proving the proposition was another matter. One reason: nobody knew whether it was possible to persuade a sufficient number of men leading normal lives to go on a low-fat diet and stick to it. At last week's A.M.A. meeting, the Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease reported after a long-term pilot project involving...
...undoubtedly watching the debate and drawing some conclusions from it. If we were to see 100,000 people marching in Hanoi calling for peace, we would think that the war was over." To Rusk, as to many others, the inescapable conclusion is that U.S. dissenters are helping to prolong the very war they decry...
...Charlie McCarthy. Westmoreland was not urging that dissent be stifled. He was, to be sure, suggesting that some forms of protest might have a demoralizing effect on U.S. troops in Viet Nam and encourage Hanoi to prolong the war. Though that observation may have been politically risky, it was a legitimate expression of concern on the part of the U.S. commander in Viet Nam. Yet, judging from the reaction, he might just as well have called for a suspension of the Bill of Rights...
...fact that this particular protest seemed based on a double standard that assumed Washington's guilt and Hanoi's innocence. Despite the marchers' pacific plea-"Make War on Poverty, Not People"-the sad fact of the "Spring Mobilization" was that it might only serve to prolong the war in Viet Nam. The ultimate accomplishment of the marchers who so gaily painted one another with psychedelic designs and marched down Madison Avenue in the cause of "love, not war," may be to encourage Hanoi in the belief that the country is divided and therefore to reject some future...
...Americans as an unnecessary one. I have always so regarded it myself. It will be even more disastrous for the Democratic Party. While it is the Republicans who are the most enthusiastic for this war, I do not suggest that the Republican leaders, not even Nixon, would wish to prolong the conflict for party advantage. When I hear generals, or high State Department officials, speak blithely of a five or ten year war I am willing to believe that they have not considered the political consequences. Perhaps they can afford to be indifferent. But for the rest of us there...