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...York Times yesterday based a major editorial -- "Untried Options in Vietnam" -- on a letter to the editor of that newspaper from James C. Thomson, assistant professor of History...
...Thomson, formerly a member of the National Security Council Staff and advisor to MacGeorge Bundy, yesterday wrote the Times that policy-makers had considered but missed "constructive alternatives" in Vietnam...
...Times quoted Thomson's recommendation that the U.S. de-escalate and "be ingenious and relentless in the pursuit of peace as we are in the infliction of pain...
...letter, Thomson asked: "Can we still learn from the bureaucratic record and, for once, call a halt before we have passed the point of no return? Or will the price of nonescalation -- of desesalation -- be once more calculated as unsupportably high, as we plow on toward calamity...
Habit of Succumbing. Partly as a result of this old-fashioned management, said the report, four of the 18 nationally circulated newspapers are likely to close down by 1970. Only two-Lord Thomson's Sunday Times and Cecil King's Daily Mirror-can face the future with any kind of confidence. From 1957 to 1964, newspaper profits rose 29%, while editorial costs jumped 98% and production wages soared 130%. During this period, only seven papers succeeded in increasing their revenues more than their costs. Average circulation fell 6%, which was an indication that the rise in population...