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Across the Channel, the change in mood and tense is more than linguistic. Un Conde (The Cop) plays the game of cops and robbers with the impact and subtlety of a .45 slug. Inspector Favenin (Michel Bouquet) has been censured for insubordination. Sullen, spiritually bankrupt, he blurs the distinction between criminal and keeper. When a young colleague is murdered, Favenin cracks. With deranged courage, he preempts the entire legal profession-cop, lawyer, judge, jury, executioner-and runs the gang to earth, ritualistically following the sanguinary vitality of the ancient Warner Bros, gangster movies...
...Nixon's personal qualities that bring from Osborne uncompromising language: "The viewed Nixon-the sullen mouth twitching on order into that spurious smile, the quality of cold and unceasing calculation to be seen in his little eyes-aroused in me a sense of ingrained and ineradicable cheapness...
...Sullen Skepticism. Nixon attempted to shift the credibility problem onto the shoulders of the media, arguing that, among other things, news coverage of the Laotian mission emphasized those South Vietnamese units that returned badly battered and not those that had fought more successfully. But then almost no reporters and photographers were permitted to cover the operation inside Laos anyhow, so the President in effect was criticizing the press for not entirely accepting the official version of the story...
Further troop withdrawals may mute criticism in the U.S., but the war has lasted so long, to such demoralizing effect upon Americans, that nothing short of total and final evacuation will ever completely ease their minds. Long habit has ingrained a sort of sullen skepticism about the war, an incredulity that is often oddly mixed with boredom. The night of his television interview last week, Nixon drew only 14% of the networks' prime-time audience; the other viewers chose a movie on NBC or Doris Day and Carol Burnett...
MORALE. The drive into Laos has left South Viet Nam sullen, uneasy and distrustful of government casualty figures and claims of victory. Clearly concerned, the Thieu regime has launched a morale-boosting effort. Thieu has been telling newsmen that Saigon's troops "will feel 10 ft. tall" when it is all over; government radio stations broadcast newly minted tunes of glory (sample title: Tchepone Victory). But in a more accurate reflection of the popular mood, Saigon's daily Tin Sang last week replied to Nixon's recent remark about the U.S.'s "last war." It editorialized...