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...schemers, you're evil. Every one of you." The misogynist? Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 54, in an interview with idol-smashing Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci published in the New Republic. Fallaci, whose belt already holds the scalps of Henry Kissinger, Willy Brandt and Nguyen Van Thieu, scored again with the revelation that the Shah is not, after all, a ladies' man. What prompted His Sublime Highness's anger, however, was something quite simple. Fallaci had asked him if it were true that he had reverted to harem, taking another wife in addition...
...dispute is what the two incidents dramatically demonstrate: the ten-month-old Viet Nam cease-fire has failed to silence the guns. Early this month, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu told a National Day audience that "the hope [for peace] entertained by this nation and the world, which a year ago was infectious, now turns out to be so much disillusion...
...Thieu's great problem is that he wants more guns and butter, and Nixon is running out of both. Indeed, there's hardly enough night oil for Nixon to read Thieu's latest arms request. Thieu has flouted the peace agreement continually. He announced recently that his army has suffered 50,000 casualties since the end of January. Such a figure is predictable since his army has not had a moment's rest from attacking...
...Thieu is still trying to pick a fight. The North Vietnamese and the PRG are preparing themselves for any eventuality. For the PRG, there will be more privations. The North Vietnamese leaders are anxious to repair war damage in two years and then to start a new five year plan in 1976. Without economic development, they fear that communism will not take hold in their country...
...Thieu, for his part, has pledged that his country will be self-sufficient in two years. Yet, the more the Vietnamese parties cold shoulder each other, the farther away the realization of their great expectations will become...