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Both the 1968 Tet Offensive and the 1972 North Vietnamese onslaught failed to topple the Thieu regime. Outside the cities, Thieu had no power, but within them his police held sway. His jails and tiger cages continued to fill with political prisoners, many of whom were charged only with being "neutralists." A stalemate reigned. Thieu could never eliminate the NLF and the North Vietnamese from the countryside. They had failed to eject him from the cities...
...Paris. But it seems to me that The Soldier's Tale comes much closer to bringing music into the twentieth century we know today, the century in which the common people--in the poems of Ezra Pound as well as the jungles of Indochina -- insist on asserting their rightful sway...
...boots). He does throw in a welcome parody of Godard and his films, all hollow Hollywood-loving childishness, abetted by the eternally adolescent actor Jean-Pierre Leaud. But even its welcome is soon worn out. And the last tango itself is pathetic: painted Fellini faces contort, and toothpick bodies sway on a dance floor as Paul tries to impress Jeanne at ringside with foreign accents and booze, and after a few drunken moves on the dance floor, flashes a moon at an irate dance judge...
...years ago today. We thought we could merely depend on the strength of our own concepts of justice. We were sure we had the right to study, a right to be lawyers and doctors, and that the stated contention that we had those rights was obvious enough to sway the powers that be. But the present favorable trend is the result of far more than the reiteration of our theories of justice, however persistent and articulate they might have been...
...their differences, the two brothers show every sign of working well together. At Fiat's most recent annual meeting, Gianni held his customary sway oh the podium, reaching out occasionally to accept a lighted cigarette from Umberto. Yet when Umberto has something to say about autos, Italian businessmen have learned to listen. Especially if Fiat's profit picture improves, many of them expect Gianni to withdraw slowly from active management of Fiat, concentrate on the family's sidelines-including insurance, banking, real estate, publishing and other financial interests besides autos-and turn the auto business over...