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...improving relations with Western Europe -provided that those relations do not cause an erosion of Soviet power at home and in the East bloc. Accordingly, the Russians are seeking to present the image of a benign and reliable neighbor to Western Europeans, who fear an eventual U.S. military pullout and are eager to strike as favorable a deal as possible with the Russians while Moscow is still willing to bargain. The underlying Soviet political motive, however, is not exactly benign. It is to stabilize Europe along its present borders and create an atmosphere of relaxed tensions that would accelerate...
...area in retribution for the North Vietnamese invasion provoked fresh editorial skirmishing between Administration critics and supporters. While the differences were as sharp as in the late '60s, hawkish editors and columnists seemed scarcer than before. Generally the hawks backed bombing as the means to hasten the U.S. pullout from Viet Nam, while doves dwelt on the dangers of deeper involvement in the fighting and confrontation with Moscow...
Despite the "pullout," President Nixon has staked his national and international reputation on the survival of South Vietnam through "Vietnamization." The present offensive threatens the failure of this strategy. Mr. Nixon, in my opinion, is an unscrupulous man, who as the situation worsens in Vietnam will become increasingly desperate. So far he has bombed the capitol of Hanoi and the port of Haiphong more heavily than even Lyndon Johnson dared four years ago. There is every indication that he will go on to mine the port of Haiphong, blockade the coast and bomb ever closer to the Chinese border...
...view, pullout would accomplish only one thing for sure: It would destroy the jobs of the South Africans whom IBM now employs, white and non-white alike...
...bomb the North Vietnamese infiltration routes in Laos. In the U.S., public opinion is electrified by a series of shocking South Vietnamese defeats. The doves of the Senate take wing once again. Half a dozen Democratic presidential aspirants declare Vietnamization a farce, demand an immediate US. pullout, and gleefully await the President's humiliation in the primaries...