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...participate in the expanded peace talks in Paris. But while the conflict lasted, perhaps the most ironic element in it was the way in which it demonstrated Saigon's new-found independence. The U.S. has all along labored to help create a stable constitutional government that could eventually stand on its own, a government immune to Communist charges that it is a mere puppet of the Americans. President Thieu's defiant holdout provided an unexpected confirmation that the U.S. has indeed been at least partially successful in those objectives in Viet Nam. The impasse, as Washington...
Jordanians have long expected Hussein to crack down on the fedayeen, who stand in the way of any hope of a settlement with Israel. Two weeks ago, residents of Jordan's capital of Amman awakened to the sound of gunfire. Loyal Bedouin soldiers clapped a tight curfew on the city and rounded up members of Kataeb al Nasr ("phalanx of victory"), a shadowy group on the fringe of the fedayeen movement. Tensions ran high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training...
...blue blouse and grey skirt and wearing a new, close-cropped hairdo, Folk Singer Joan Baez looked more like yesterday's gym teacher than today's pop protester. She was beginning to sound different, too, as she conducted a press conference prior to an L.A. one-night stand. On campus demonstrations: "Downright silly. You don't accomplish anything by breaking in and smoking the president's cigars." On the convention demonstrations in Chicago: "Really filthy." On politics: "It is patronizing for white liberals to swing along with the Black Panther Party...
...sorry that the church isn't in the 20th century, but then, who knows precisely what to do with the 20th century anyway? We live in a time when men may be standing on the surface of the moon and other men may be transplanting human brains. You've got to look for equilibrium somewhere. The Catholic church could stand a million improvements, and it's going to have to have them, but it is better than the great foggy unknown...
Snakish Slide. To prove his point, Davis is currently engaged in a Berlioz bash during a four-week guest stand with the New York Philharmonic at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. At the opening concert, devoted entirely to Berlioz works, the audience clearly got the idea of what Davis means by voltage and terror. The first composition was the overture to Les Francs-Juges, an unfinished opera about the secret vigilante courts that terrorized Germany in the Middle Ages. The overture, as Davis says, "has a sort of white-hot energy. In the middle there is the most pathetic, square...