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Their target was a scant 20 nautical miles from the center of Hanoi: Son Tay, an American prisoner-of-war compound. As the tiny fleet scuttled into North Viet Nam, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger followed its progress at the Pentagon. The radio monitors in Washington were only two minutes behind the actual events. When the choppers passed their first checkpoint, they were seven minutes ahead of schedule. Kissinger made a quiet joke to a high-ranking officer about the plan's being off. Just wait, Kissinger was told. By the time the squadron passed the last checkpoint...
...series with resistible titles like The Voice of Mobilization. Vietnamese TV has yet to produce any stars. Even a Cronkite would have a tough time coming across on THVN newscasts, which are unaccountably aired with tunes like Mrs. Robinson and Love Is Blue as background music. Actors, too, find scant opportunity to shine in THVN's ersatz soap operas and sitcoms, which are long on doctrine and all too short on drama. Typical plot: North Vietnamese saboteur infiltrates the South, discovers that life under the Saigon government is not as bad as Hanoi has made...
...Senate. If it passes, he would do well to veto it, even at the price of delaying an increase in Social Security benefits. If the bill becomes law, he could use the "national interest" clause to weaken the trigger mechanism. The President's waffling so far, however, leaves scant hope that he will do any of these things. If he does not. the black comedy could become a horror story...
Even considering the extraordinary circumstances, the fact that an avowed Conservative with scant appeal to Jews or blacks could win in New York represented something of a milestone. He did it by rallying Italian, Irish and suburban voters, and by cutting heavily into union halls that were once the exclusive domain of the Democrats. In New York, jobs and Viet Nam were not the pre-eminent concerns; the social issue was. Rockefeller benefited similarly; he had moved markedly to the right, and steadily refused to attack Buckley on Goodell's behalf. Rocky rolled up the biggest plurality of his career...
...conservative who had become a major power in the inner "club" which controls many Senate decisions. But "Little Henry," as Virginians call him, has not developed into the political powerhouse his father was. In a special primary in 1966, the voters ratified his title to the seat by a scant 8100-vote margin...