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...retrospect, the prospects for any resurgence in radical activity this Spring were dashed last January when the Vietnam peace agreements were signed and one phase of the decade-long American involvement in Indochina came to an end. The war is not over by any means, but its searing vividness has been dimmed enough to sever left-liberals from the radical coalition and leave radicals themselves temporarily floating about with nowhere to turn...
...after Vietnam is an open question. The war presented us with a stark contrast between good and evil, a contrast which blurs into varying shades of grey on other issues. The criminal apocalypses that seemed so imminent at many junctures over the past decade tend to appear juvenile in retrospect. With the war nearly over, the imperatives for action are less obvious, less strident...
Wrenches. In retrospect, it would have been far better for all concerned had Nixon either overruled or replaced Hoover, because the alternative he decided upon was to set up his own team of White House snoopers, answerable to only a handful of Administration officials. His subsequent problems can largely be traced to that single decision...
...Nieman class co-authored a book, Your Newspaper: Blueprint for a Better Press, which was published in 1947. In retrospect, Robert Manning, now editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a Nieman in 1945, says the book may have been somewhat pretentious but he notes that it was "a little bit ahead of its time" in asking such questions as who should control the press...
Tell, whose death seems in retrospect to have been a major turning point in the evolution of Palestinian violence, had been appointed by King Hussein to restore royal authority and enforce law-and-order on the refugee guerrillas. He did just that, ruthlessly executing guerrillas as he went, and thus marking himself for eventual assassination. His death was the first appearance of the now notorious Black September terrorists...