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Double Strategy. In Washington's view, Hanoi's negotiators at the Paris parley are conducting a double strategy, seeking to sow dissension between the U.S. and its nervous Saigon ally and simultaneously to gain a respite from U.S. bombing. During the first week of talks, the North Vietnamese seemed to make some headway with that strategy...
What had been discussed when Cernik and Party Boss Dubcek journeyed to Moscow for a Kremlin conference the week before? "No question that could sow distrust was at stake. The role of the Soviet Union has been much overplayed." Were the "military maneuvers" of the Russian army in Poland over? "Why don't you ask the Poles?" Cernik insisted that Czechoslovakia would never alter its ties to Russia, but added: "We think we can contribute to the dismantling of the cold war." Cernik and Sik made plain that investments by the capitalist world would henceforth be welcome, announced that...
...Crater with a View. The V.C. first opened up with mortars on the U.S. base, then sent snipers scurrying under cover of the moonless night into the camp's very midst to sow confusion. Then, from north and south, the Communists charged in force. The big U.S. 155-mm. guns were lowered to fire pointblank, and cooks and headquarters clerks joined the gun crews in manning the defense. U.S. planes, directed by Sergeant Mark Ridley of San Antonio, soon swept in to blast the attackers. When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol...
...About the story on the anti-ballistic missile [May 26]: No one denies that an ABM system would stop only a fraction of incoming warheads-no defense of any kind in any war has ever been 100% effective. The idea is to sow enough doubt, uncertainty and expense into the plans of the enemy to deter him from striking. The daring technical innovations of high X-ray yield and terminal interception pioneered by the Soviets point the way to a viable ABM defense. Let's build one. NORMAN G. LOOPER Lieutenant, U.S.N. St. Paul...
Though he fled Ireland-that "sow that eats its own litter"-Joyce was never far from home in thought. His loving hatred for it burned fiercely till he died. He was, as Ellmann puts it neatly and memorably, "a Parnell...