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...first time in over a decade, American warplanes are not killing people. An estimated one-third of Cambodia's 12 million people were made refugees by the American bombing. Yet the bombing is over, and most of them can go home now--home to rebuild, to mourn for dead friends and care for crippled cousins, to try to live again...
...across the idea that journalists are beastly by saying that they are entitled to be so. Last week, when asked about public confidence in him, he put part of the blame on four months of prime-time "leers and sneers of commentators -which is their perfect right." How to rebuild confidence? By action, not words, he replied: "What the President says will not restore it. And what you ladies and gentlemen say will certainly not restore it." In something of an over statement, he said that charges of impropriety in the financing of San Clemente were "carried, usually, in eight...
...particularly students who had time to ponder such matters, started to search for an explanation for the Vietnamese resistance. In the face of a nearly total onslaught by the greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern War? Why did did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
After the war, Crimson editors drifted back to Cambridge, and the paper started to rebuild itself. One of its first moves was the purchase the Harvard Illustrated Magazine, a publication which had started in 1899. The Magazine's photo equipment came along with the magazine itself and the Photographic Board was born...
...North Vietnamese haven't given up any of their goals. It's just that they've given themselves a period of years without military struggle. From now on it's mostly political." Hanoi wants to strengthen its cadre network in the South and to rebuild the bomb-shattered economy in the North. Nonetheless, it gives every indication that it is prepared to start fighting again if it fails to win the South politically. In contrast to eight years ago, when the Viet Cong were poorly armed and waging primarily a guerrilla war, the Communists...