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...local accommodation between Viet Cong and government commanders-the Delta war has long been yielding up to a fourth of the enemy's losses each month. And the enemy's manpower squeeze has already begun to seep down into the Delta, making it more than ever ripe for American thrusting. Not long ago the government captured an unprecedented 55 soldiers of the main force So Trang battalion, once one of the Viet Cong's finest. Among them was a boy of only 14, and the average age of the 55 was 17. They had been press-ganged...
...Wilson wants guarantees that the nation's 4,000,000 blacks will eventually gain majority rule when their "achievement warrants it." Smith, who has said that "one man, one vote will not come within my life," wants the whites to have power to decide when the time is ripe. He also objects to Wilson's demand that he return legal power to the British governor to implement any agreement reached-with London. At week's end, Smith said the gap had narrowed and that "man to man" talks between him and Wilson would be useful. British officials...
...internal situation of a country is not ripe for subversion, the fall of a neighboring country--a Vietnam--is not going to topple it, he alleged...
...seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns as purplish black as a ripe fox grape. Trouble is, the author is danged serious...
...Shameless Old Lady. Blithely disregarding the tendency of French film makers to accent the negatives of youth, this fledgling work winsomely salutes the positives of ripe old age. Seventyish but young at heart, the heroine has barely buried her husband when her grown children begin debating what to do about Poor Mother. Poor Mother soon ends the debate and infuriates the brood by doing just as she pleases...