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...famous victory, of course, when George Washington and a doughty band of patriots crossed the ice-choked Delaware River on Dec. 25, 1776, and went on to rout the Christmas-dazed Hessians in Trenton, N.J. Indeed it has become a bit too famous, in the view of many residents of Hopewell Township, N.J. (current population 12,000), where Washington came ashore. They fear vast armies of Americans will mark the Bicentennial by descending on their rural area, which is the home of Washington Crossing State Park. Local estimates are that as many as 4 million visitors may come...
...American policy during the October War gave clear in cation of how he analyzed the situation Kissinger saw another massive Israeli victory as potentially detrimental to both achieving a settlement in the area, and more importantly, to the cause of detente. Should the Israelis be about to repeat the rout of 1967, he believed, the Soviet Union would intervene, even at the risk of a direct confrontation with the United States. The development which would have pleased Kissinger most then was a modest but definitive Israeli defeat. With this in mind, he and Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger...
...most often cited admirable acts of John Kennedy's presidency was the manly way he faced up to the humiliating rout of the CIA-backed troops that invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. Offering no excuses, he took personal blame for the disaster even though he had inherited the plan from the Eisenhower Administration. But TIME has been told by credible sources that Kennedy did not accept the defeat all that gracefully. In anger, he and his brother Robert, then Attorney General, covertly ordered agencies of the U.S. Government to find some sure means of deposing...
...receiving end of the cables from Indochina, writers, editors and reporter-researchers in New York have also shouldered an exhausting work load. Since the South Vietnamese rout began in mid-March, the special Indochina section has logged 70-and 80-hour weeks, producing the articles that went with seven of the past eight TIME covers. The staff, under Senior Editors John Elson, Jason McManus and Ronald Kriss, has consisted of members of both our Nation and World sections. The principal contributors: Associate Editors Frank Merrick, Burton Pines and William Smith, Reporter-Researchers Marta Dorion, Sara Medina, Betty Suyker, Susan Reed...
...Saigon government to slide precipitately to abject defeat. The collapse had begun with a Communist attack on the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, 160 miles north of Saigon. Then followed President Nguyen Van Thieu's disastrous strategic withdrawal, which turned into a rout. Within weeks, Communist forces had advanced virtually unopposed to the very outskirts of Saigon. Forced to resign and flee the country, Thieu was replaced by his aging, ineffectual Vice President, Tran Van Huong, who in turn gave way after just six days to the only man thought to have a chance...