Word: segments
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After an announcement of a ceasefire in Vietnam. President Nguyen Van Thieu will continue as leader of the present Saigon government until the formation of a tripartite government in which Thieu will assume leadership of one segment. One of the remaining two segments will include individuals who are neutrals and who live in Vietnam or abroad. The other group will include supporters of the National Liberation Front and the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Each segment will be free to choose the individuals it wants to participate in the provisional government, whose task will be to plan the arrangements for a permanent...
...impressive gains the Communists have made in Cambodia since the start of the Easter offensive. They have expanded their area of control (see map, preceding page) from the sparsely populated north and northeast into the more populous south. They have also taken over virtual command of the segment of Route One that runs from the Mekong River to the Viet Nam border-in all, they control more than half the country...
Whether Ralph Nader's much heralded study of the Congress will accomplish similar and much needed congressional overhauls remains to be seen, but the first segment of the study, published last week as a $1.95 paperback titled Who Runs Congress (Bantam Books), bears a distressing resemblance in its tone and quality of research to Phillips' tirade. The tract revels in recounting every instance of bribery, influence peddling and even criminality in the congressional history books, but it is neither explicit nor persuasive in presenting its view of the problems that short-circuit congressional progress...
...they argued, sources of information would simply dry up out of fear of being exposed. Only the right of silence would leave the press free to fulfill its traditional watchdog mission. As one example, William Small of CBS testified that the network had been forced recently to drop a segment of a program on welfare fraud when it could not promise its informant anonymity...
...Landau's fault that the careful research in his best chapter has become largely superfluous. Nor is he to blame for Kissingers refusal to grant him an interview Kissingers official bashfulness, however does put a heavy strain on the book. The effects are most severe in the biographical segment...