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...mechanized units continued to defend the South Vietnamese portion of Highway 9, guarding against a possible North Vietnamese thrust across that route...
...action yesterday a North Vietnamese tank column chased Saigon troops down Highway 9 to within six miles of South Vietnam's northwestern border while a U. S. force scrambled to block any North Vietnamese thrust across the frontier...
...ruckus tended to obscure the real issue. What is actually under attack -and at stake in Laos-is Nixon's whole Indochina policy. The thrust into Laos represents a huge gamble. Yet there has been a growing sense in the White House in recent weeks that perhaps, just perhaps, the U.S. may be able to pull off not only a successful withdrawal from Indochina but some form of victory as well. That victory would be based on the ability of a South Vietnamese government to survive without large-scale U.S. help and like South Korea after 1954, to hold...
...More than that, the British warned Haughton that Lockheed would likely have to pay about $1.2 million to buy each engine v. the $840,000 specified in the original contract. Also, the first engines would be six months late in delivery, and they would have only 37,000 lbs. thrust. Delivery of engines with the full planned thrust of 42,000 Ibs. would be 18 months late. Moreover, Lockheed would have to waive the $120 million in penalties that it could have tried to collect for late delivery under the old contract...
...attempting to wrest present justice from past injustice. Arthur Miller's The Price is a perfect example. In alchemistic drama, the goal is to transmute the heavy base metals of the past into present lyric gold, as Tennessee Williams did in The Glass Menagerie. Generally speaking, the main thrust of retributive drama is moral, and that of alchemistic drama is aesthetic...