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...pinball wizard and a fabulous star. Townshend's opera tries to make some dramatic statements about the plight of the rock personality. Riches don't mean happiness, young boppers get kicked in the face by bodyguards when they rush the stage--that sort of thing. But Russell can't resist playing these scenes for the vicarious turn-on. Tommy smashes a figurative mirror, regains his senses, sings, "I'm Free," and leads the millions in a religious movement dedicated to himself, the abolition of drugs and alchohol, and a rite of plugging the eyes, ears and mouths of the brethren...
What was astonishing was the speed and suddenness of the South Vietnamese collapse. The country that had fought the Communists to a stand-off since the Paris Accords of January 1973 now seemed to have lost the ability and will to resist; its defenses simply melted away before North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. The Communists had not yet penetrated the vital Saigon region, and there was still hope that the government would be able to defend the capital. But many Viet Nam experts, who two weeks ago were predicting only limited losses for Saigon during the current dry season...
...they could produce a hair-curling federal budget deficit of $100 billion or more for the next fiscal year (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Ford said that any such deficit would be "too dangerous to permit," since it would "threaten another vicious spiral of runaway double-digit inflation." He vowed to resist any attempt by Congress to pass spending programs that would produce a deficit any higher than $60 billion...
Tragic Effort. The hard fact is that the government of Cambodia's Lon Nol is tenuous at best and probably ultimately untenable. South Viet Nam has far stronger moral claims on U.S. support, and, until this week at least, seemed to have far greater strength to resist. But in Viet Nam too, U.S. military aid cannot go on indefinitely. President Ford's suggestion of three more years and $5.5 billion is undoubtedly too much for Congress. On the other hand, the proposal to cut off military aid by June 30 would end the help too abruptly. Dates...
...military aid at once is strong. It would be better, however, to give Saigon some warning first and set a deadline. A year or 18 months should be enough. At that point the Saigon government should be as strong as it will ever be to resist further attacks. Thereafter, like the other countries of Indochina, it will have to rely largely on its own strength to maintain its independence if its people want it. By then the U.S. would also have more than amply demonstrated to the world that it is not an unreliable ally, if it has not done...