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Cities, like people, react to war in different ways. After a month of terror, Saigon has totally lost its old insular mood of relative peace and well-being and developed a bothersome split personality. By day, the South Vietnamese capital is struggling to regain a veneer of normalcy; by night, as artillery crashes in the suburbs and searchlights stab the sky, Saigon retreats to a mood of agonizing fear and foreboding, awaiting another Communist onslaught that most of its citizens feel is inevitable...
...ones who have a smattering of theoretical knowledge get hung up on interpretations instead of listening to the patient and relating to him as a person. Successful case-aides react naturally to a patient and bring things back to the group to find out what they're about. Frequently they are being therapeutic without doing therapy. They try to figure out the patients, but as people, not as cases...
...assume so much, worry so much, react so violently so far from our shores, when other nations play it cool? We must remain strong and be prepared to defend and help the peoples of this hemisphere. We will find this and our own internal problems sufficient to mark the limits of our power...
...absorbed a brutal check from Seal Defender George Swarbrick that seemed to stagger him. Hull's shoulders sagged, his curved stick came up, and for the briefest instant, Swarbrick relaxed. Whap! Hull's stick slashed downward; 25 ft. away, Goalie Hodge could not even begin to react as the rock-hard rubber disk, traveling at better than 100 m.p.h., whistled past his knee into...
...large measure, the ICC failure reflects the broader impotence of the Geneva Conference itself. UN observation teams may not be able to force compliance, but the UN at least provides a standing forum which maximizes the impact of their reports and can react with powerful resolutions during crises. In the isolated cases when the ICC gets off a report, the Conference provides no such amplifier...