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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows they cannot deliver. And by temperament and the terms of his new assignment, the cigar-chomping Abrams will likely be his own man in Saigon, running things largely his own way with more on-the-spot freedom than Westmoreland enjoyed. That, in a way, will represent a personal sort of de-escalation by President Johnson, who feels keenly the criticism that he has kept the reins of war too tightly in his own hands...
...Westmoreland and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker read the ledger, the U.S. position looks encouraging-and the Pentagon insists that the readings do not represent the sort of optimism that flowed all too easily before the shock of Tet. As the military experts see it, the Communists took crippling losses in the 40,000 of their soldiers killed during the Tet campaign and the 15,000 chewed up during their disastrous siege of the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh (see box). The Tet onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with...
...airmen enclosed the besieged fortress in a virtual curtain of falling bombs. Though the Marines lost most of their original supply of artillery ammunition when an enemy shell hit their supply dump early in the siege, they were able to call in airpower for the sort of pinpoint destruction that is normally associated with howitzers. When the lowering clouds lifted a few hundred feet, dartlike Air Force F-100s, Navy and Marine F-4 fighter-bombers and stubby A-4 light bombers zipped under the overcast to place high explosives on the spreading enemy trenches. Huge, eight...
...just this sort of undramatic report, repeated time and time again, that led Dr. Goddard to make some top-of-the-head remarks to students at the University of Minnesota last fall. "Whether or not marijuana is a more dangerous drug than alcohol is debatable-I don't happen to think...
...foremost chronicler of this new Wandering Jew-this spiritually displaced person-Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 1966. An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact. But he has the cumulative aftereffect and the stubbornly expanding grip on common experience that measure a substantial talent...