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...divisions, put together last June from stragglers and captured deserters, and there was no sign yet of the widespread unit defections that would signal the beginning of an overall collapse of ARVN. Still, the South Vietnamese badly needed to win the next battle if they were to stave off a national psychology of defeat that could intensify pressures to settle with the Communists at any price...
...time is surely running out in Viet Nam. Nixon's Vietnamization policy must be one of the most complicated balancing acts in the history of diplomacy. Never in the annals of modern warfare has a nation tried to win a war -or at least stave off defeat-while withdrawing its troops from battle. The President has apparently shown more confidence in public than he has in private. Another batch of classified documents leaked to the press last week reveals that the CIA, the State Department and the Pentagon all cast serious doubt on current policies back...
Legal Appeals. Earlier in the tangled procedure, the Senate had adopted by a decisive margin a far milder antibusing amendment proposed by Republican Leader Hugh Scott and Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. Offered primarily to stave off the harsh Griffin measure, and to close out the possibility of a constitutional amendment banning busing, it was supported by a number of civil rights liberals. The amendment prevents the use of any federal funds for racial busing unless local school districts request the money-but it would not affect court orders requiring districts to bus. The amendment also delays the execution...
...stave off that calamity, the government had appointed a special commission, headed by noted Jurist Lord Wilberforce, to adjudicate the miners' demands. Its recommendation: an 11% to 24% raise, bringing the miners' wages up to a range of $59.80 to $89.70 per week. Union leaders voted first to reject the offer. But later, after a midnight bargaining session at 10 Downing Street, the union leaders agreed to submit the proposal directly to their members...
...clandestine rendezvous. Next comes a series of further strange deaths among the medical staff. The hospital is in a flurry, the demonstrators are chanting outside, the slimy capitalist is trying to cull support for his encounter with the hospital director, the director is going frantic trying to stave off the demonstrators. Meanwhile patients are mislaid, the bookkeeper harasses a dying man to get his Blue Shield number, and Scott and Rigg are carrying on their own private tug-of-war over whether to stay or go to Mexico, she dressed in a nurse's uniform because her blouse had been...