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...Supreme Court has steadfastly refused to debate the legality of U.S. participation in the Viet Nam War. Three Army privates could not tempt the court with the issue in 1967, when they tried to block their orders for shipment to Viet Nam; last week the court rejected another challenge by the most powerful courtroom protester yetthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...Nixon decides his law and order message wasn't brought home strongly enough we can anticipate more provocation of the San Jose "This is what they really hate" style. The tactic is really an old one: tempt the opposition into some exceptionally sensational and yet fruitless act and then use it as an excuse to quash them. Hitler, for example, did it with the Reichstag fire...
Clerance Felder as the Devil then dons angel's robe and halo and takes the "high road" to tempt the Soldier. No longer a sadist, the Devil has become an effeminate masochist...
...move: a clear-cut routing of the guerrillas; a smashing fedayeen victory and Hussein's fall; a prolonged stalemate. They outlined U.S. options to deal with each eventuality. Far more ominous, however, was another possibility: that the Iraqis and Syrians, long sympathetic to the commandos, might intervene. That could tempt Israeli troops, armor and airpower to plunge in too. Then Egypt might respond?and Soviet pilots and technicians have become an integral part of Gamal Abdel Nasser's military forces. The first aim of U.S. strategy had to be to confine the fighting to the initial parties. The U.S. also...
...nations that hold the geographic keys to Europe have at last decided that peace is the only sensible solution. The peril is that the Treaty of Moscow will cause the West to succumb to a false sense of security that could again end in disillusionment. The accord might also tempt the Eastern Europeans to move too far and too fast in seeking accommodation with the West. If that happens, Soviet leaders may decide to reassert the Brezhnev Doctrine-just as they did in Czechoslovakia two years ago. Because of the dismal failure of Soviet-style Communism to develop healthy roots...