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...Effectiveness Trap...
Nonetheless, there is also what Harvard Historian James Thomson Jr. calls "the effectiveness trap." Many officials decide to stay in office to combat presidential policies−only to wake up one day and discover that they have had no tangible effect whatsoever. In the Johnson Administration, for example, Under Secretary of State George Ball came to be accepted as the house dove, the devil's advocate who could be counted upon to present all the opposing arguments to the prevailing course on the war. While Ball presented his case forcefully, his counsel was more often than not discounted even...
...SoHo artists welcome them. "They're going after the market and going in for the whole promotional thing," says one. Others fear that galleries will touch off a cancerous growth of boutiques, coffee bars and hot-dog stands, turning SoHo into a honky-tonk tourist trap...
...both of these instances, brilliant young defense attorneys (only last summer a revised Uniform Code of Military Justice guaranteed defendants representation) managed to trap hostile witnesses into contradicting their own testimony and that of others. In both instances they also managed to elicit evidence that the Army had purposely forced the defendants into disobedience, or else refused to take simple steps to head off their action...
...jutting into South Viet Nam, they surrounded Svay Rieng Ville on three sides. Moreover, they moved to within striking distance of the Mekong River ferry linking Svay Rieng with Phnom-Penh, leading some observers to speculate that they hoped to lure a large defense force across the river and trap it there. To the south, a combined force of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops advanced on the provincial capital of Takeo. During one of its fiercest battles against seasoned Communist troops so far, the inexperienced Cambodian army lost 150 men killed or missing in 48 hours...