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Obviously, an important question raised during the week of thrust and counterthrust was that of security against future Viet Cong attacks. But it is doubtful whether anything approaching real security can be achieved in a guerrilla war. "I don't believe it will ever be possible to protect our forces against sneak attacks of that kind," said Defense Secretary McNamara after Pleiku. Quinhon occurred despite stringently tightened security, including U.S. sentries patrolling the hotel's roof...
Buddhists are something like a child who has grown too fast and had too much thrust on him," says Khanh. "But the good parent does not kill the child. Instead, he gives him the medicine he needs, and when he gets well, he gives him the discipline he needs...
...holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." The time has passed, said Hines, when Christians can retreat within their ecclesiastical for tress to recite prayers and polish brass. "The church is caught up today in the throes of a worldwide convulsion, the basic ferment of which is the thrust for freedom and dignity and hope on the part of the little people of the world. The church as an agent of God's reconciling love cannot survive this revolution as an observer...
...going to talk about sex, are we?" says a blond kid in horn-rims, yawning. The latest dance is the jerk: partners face each other three feet apart, then languorously sway their upper spine and arms while rhythmically punctuating the undulations with a savage pelvic thrust...
...thrust into Europe has been engineered by its expansion-minded Executive Vice President James M. Roche, 58. One of four G.M. executive veeps, Roche is the boss of all overseas operations, has allocated $400 million of the company's two-year, $2 billion capital-spending program to European ventures. From Detroit, he has also directed Opel in its challenge to Volkswagen's leadership in West Germany. Even without the proposed Antwerp plant, G.M.'s Opel and Vauxhall models have cornered 13% of Europe's 7,000,000-car market...