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ment to Lindsay's come-from-behind shot at re-election. In other words, the Lindsay victory could be a Pyrrhic victory, squeezing Manhattan, the poor, the rich, the social scientists and the beautiful people to the bone...
...Pyrrhic Victory. While the Republicans stewed, Senate Democrats, for the most part, kept their own counsel on Haynsworth. By not making the confirmation a test of loyalty for Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield left maneuvering room for discontented Republicans and increased chances of a negative vote on Haynsworth. If all the Democrats banded against the G.O.P. nominee, Republican dissidents might more easily be persuaded to accept the party line for purely partisan reasons...
...there was anyone's guess at week's end. Barring some new development, most of the cloakroom vote counting indicated the President would win and get his Associate Justice. But if the vote were to be very close, the cost could be a divided G.O.P. and a Pyrrhic victory for the President...
Onganía's victory over his rival may prove Pyrrhic. Though two of the ousted service chiefs are to be given attractive ambassadorships, Alsogaray plans to stay in Argentina. His brother Alvaro resigned his post in Washington and is returning home. If they can attract enough supporters to contest Onganía's dominance of the government, together they hope to find a way to head Argentina back along the road to democracy...
Another Price. In the end, however, the Communist victory may be classed as Pyrrhic. The allied command reported nearly 15,000 of the attackers killed. Even if the total is only half that?and some observers think that that may be the case when all the combat reports filed in the swirl of battle are cross-checked?it would still represent a huge bloodletting of the enemy's forces in South Viet Nam. Even the lower estimates leave no doubt about who won the actual battles: U.S. dead numbered 367 and South Vietnamese military dead about...