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...tired talk of fading U.S. prestige, of nations falling like dominoes, of a massive Communist-inflicted bloodbath, form a self-made trap that only exacerbates the very public reaction that seems to so obsess the President. It could lead him, in turn, to drastic measures that would endanger that "generation of peace" which Nixon so often cites as his prime presidential goal...
...time to break out of that trap, to take a more detached and longer perspective. If he did so, Nixon could perhaps develop and articulate a policy for Southeast Asia that fits logically with his constructive overtures to China and the Soviet Union and his grand design for peace. At present, even the most sophisticated young anti-Communist in Asia must be totally confused at the thought of mighty air and naval armadas massed against an apparently independent little Communist nation while the President negotiates cordially with the two major Communist powers...
...Nixon Administration is plainly desperate if it is willing to risk the promised glory of a Russian journey. The people of Vietnam are defeating the invader. As long as it insists on winning, the U.S. can make no exit. Like a trapped rodent gnawing at its leg, Nixon is ripping apart his hopes for diplomatic triumphs in Moscow and Peking. Now is the time to push the U.S. out of Indochina. Now is the time to spring the trap...
...both got so cross my father almost lost control of himself and the car." Or " 'You arse with ears!' my father shouted" and " 'You ox, you stupid cowboy, why don't you stay in your pastures?' And the other driver said, 'Shut your trap, there's a draft...
...barring acts of God or a radical takeover of city government, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the Class of '72 spends its fifth reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known quite soon