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Continued Dispute. Almost inevitably, the debacle in Southeast Asia was seen in the context of other recent U.S. foreign policy setbacks: the breakdown of Kissinger's step-by-step Middle East diplomacy, Portugal's slide toward leftist rule and the continued dispute between NATO allies Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. The fear was not that Viet Nam had fatally sapped America's physical strength or irretrievably tarnished its moral authority but that the bitter experience of recent events might somehow have traumatized America's will. A front-page editorial in the Brit ish weekly...
Frank Mankiewicz is a journalist and lawyer-as well as former campaign manager for George McGovern-and he makes an insistent point: it was not the press that brought Nixon down, but the law-respect for it and for the kind of step-by-step preparation and pursuit that due process requires. Mankiewicz is especially sharp at pointing out the lies and equivocations of Nixon's TV statements and press conferences...
HOFFMANN'S VIEW of the final settlement--what he feels should be Israel's view--is withdrawal to the pre-1967 war boundaries, with modifications in Jerusalem, in return for recognition and security guarantees. He suggests that a step-by-step approach is possible only within the contest of a larger settlement, and offers his notion of possible guarantees: "For a long period both sides will have to be militarily separated. The aim ought to be the stationing in the Sinai, at Sharmel-Sheikh, in the Golan Heights, and in those portions of the Golan Heights, that...
Perhaps the major dilemma facing Hanoi is whether to go for a quick, immediate strike at the capital-or whether to proceed step-by-step, which would allow ARVN more time to regroup and rebuild some of its shattered divisions. Actually, Hanoi has a third option: hoping that Saigon will fall without a fight anyway. "We do not want our compatriots to die if we can obtain our objectives by other means," declared Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the Provisional Revolutionary Government's Foreign Minister...
...More than that, they were still seething that the special relationship between Jerusalem and Washington had been clouded by public charges on President Ford's part and private accusations from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that it was Israel rather than Egypt that had deadlocked Kissinger's step-by-step peacemaking after 15 days of shuttle diplomacy last month...