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...policies, their motives and even their wives. What, indeed, had I to do with this latest paroxysm of violence? What can I possibly do to prevent another? I have no .22-cal. weapon to lay down, but I have preconceived opinions to lay aside, and harsh, irresponsible words to swallow...
Williams, taken off the "serious but not critical" list at San Francisco's St. Mary's Hospital last week, is suffering only from a damaged tongue nerve that is making it difficult for him to swallow and speak. He still cannot remember being shot, but guesses that the hoodlums did their dirtiest work in frustration when they discovered that he had very little money in his pockets. Fournier and the San Francisco police still find it all a bit difficult to believe...
...sure, the U.S. has no intention of forcing upon the still fragile South Vietnamese government a coalition that, by including Communists, might well swallow it. Nonetheless, any settlement that emerges from the Paris talks will ultimately have to reflect the harsh reality of the battlefield, and that reality may be the one that now prevails: a standoff. The U.S. cannot expect to get the kind of settlement it would if the enemy had been routed or were in any immediate danger of defeat. Thus, in all likelihood, some provision will eventually have to be made to give the Communists representation...
...course, is no more anxious than Thieu and Ky to accept a coalition that would swallow non-Communist elements. Speaking on CBS-TV's Face the Nation last week, William Bundy warned that an "imposed coalition" giving the Viet Cong key Cabinet posts "would be likely to follow the East European pattern of the simple takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer...
Having secured their primary goal--the demonstrators should abandon their battle posts and swallow their anarchic threats to burn down the University to save their own skins...