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...COULD close my eyes," said Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington last week, "and as I listened to those briefings, I could hear the same thing I heard in Saigon five years ago." What Symington and other war critics thought they detected was another new upsurge in the Indochinese war, caused, paradoxically, by the Administration's complex efforts to extricate the U.S. from Viet...
...involving implantation of a thin, one-inch-long drain tube). When his ear improved, Shepard reapplied for active status and spent countless hours in the gym and Apollo flight simulators. Finally, in August 1969, he was designated, along with Navy Commander Edgar D. Mitchell, 40, and Air Force Major Stuart A. Roosa, 37, for Apollo...
JUST AS 1970 was the year of student films, 1971 promises to be the year of Indian sagas. (And not surprisingly, the same liberal obtuseness shines through both. Consider Stuart Hagmann's Strawberry Statement. It has more in common with Soldier Blue than the rousing Buffy Sainte-Marie theme songs that are sung over the opening credits of each. For Strawberry Statement worked on the similar assumption that the only way an American audience would sit through a sympathetic treatment of student radicalism was to present the narrative through the eyes of a likeable, essentially apolitical adolescent.) Liberals take these...
Consider Laos. It is no secret any longer that the U.S. is today deeply involved in an undeclared war there, allied with the supposedly neutralist government of Prince Souvanna Phouma against the North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao. Yet only after Senator Stuart Symington's Foreign Relations Subcommittee looked into the matter, against the wishes of the State Department, did the American public learn in detail how U.S. aircraft based in Thailand were bombing northern Laos, the CIA was guiding the operations of Meo tribesmen, and the U.S. was providing millions in military assistance to Souvanna Phouma-all clear...
...roll of her eyes, to show her disapproval of certain queries. Because of her mugging and facial contortions, the "Washington Witches" (the British nickname given the Washington women's press corps for its relentless pursuit of Prince Charles and Princess Anne) have dubbed these press conferences "the Connie Stuart Show." But the Witches grant that Connie tries hard, and that if she does not know something, she will admit it, adding: "I'll find out for you." She usually does...