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...unilateral truce. "We ought to distinguish," he added, "between what might happen at Christmas and the idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast, the Communists used last winter's respite to repair facilities, strengthen antiaircraft defenses, and beef up their forces south of the 17th parallel...
...city. Blowing up a $16 million rocket to get to the moon may seem wasteful to some-but it scarcely is, in view of what space exploration contributes to science and the economy, not to say the human spirit. War is undoubtedly wasteful, not only in matériel but also in the irretrievable waste of lost lives. Yet even here, it is a question of values-most American wars have been fought for human causes and values that its citizens considered no waste, whether it was abolition of slavery at home or freedom in the world at large...
...sheet steel to automobile tires. This effort is essential to bolster Viet Nam's war-buffeted economy, and, of course, to support the war effort. But as of last week, no one in Saigon or in Washington had any real idea of how much of that matériel had been used for its intended purpose, how much had helped to line profiteers' pockets-or, indeed, how much had wound up in Viet Cong stockpiles...
...Gaulle had no intention of "challenging" the basic treaty. The problem, as he saw it, was "the organization" of NATO, which calls for French troops under integrated NATO command and the presence on French soil of NATO men and matériel. France would have been happy to negotiate reforms, but hélas, wrote De Gaulle, the other NATO countries were "all partisans of the maintenance of the status quo." Therefore France would soon unilaterally withdraw its own remaining forces from NATO commands. And NATO, in turn, would be required "to transfer out of French territory...
...envelope" enfolding North Viet Nam's major industrial centers with a raid on the sprawling Uong Bi power plant at Haiphong; in 18,600 sorties, bombers have plastered targets to within 30 miles of the Chinese border. Yet Hanoi is pouring more men and matériel into the South each month. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a long, costly stalemate may well persuade more and more Americans that the pacifists and isolationists and columnists such as Walter Lippmann-not to mention Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh-were right all along in arguing that...