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From Point to Point. Harkins had long been addicted to horses, and he joined the Massachusetts National Guard when he discovered that he could get free rides in the cavalry troop. This led to diligent cramming for West Point, where he played hockey and polo and graduated a respectable 134th in his class...
Pushed from Behind. Mandel writes in this upended fashion. He tells of the mental disintegration of a U.S. mechanized cavalry troop fighting in Germany in 1944, and his soldiers are only a shade more than interchangeable war novel parts. But he describes the branching filaments of their decay with subtle force, and states clearly a proposition that most battle novels fudge: in the insane world of mud, blood and constant gunfire, the normal condition of a combat soldier must be something close to insanity...
...Troop has been fighting for four months, pushed from behind by a hearty, pistol-packing captain whose notion of boldness is to commit his men without sufficient support. So far, casualties have been light. But good luck has been strained to the breaking point. So have the men of A Troop's second platoon...
...economy into chaos. The country's hard currency and gold reserves, estimated at $300 million, are exhausted. The black-market rate for U.S. dollars has climbed 100% in eight months. The price for once-plentiful rice has trebled in three months. In wide areas, famine is raging, and troop rations have been slashed to rush food to the people. Thousands of people were suffering from malnutrition, and near Djakarta 70 were reported dead of starvation...
...negotiations these days has become a cliche. yet a neutral, unified Vietnam, the best solution to everyone's problems, can be achieved only through bargaining. The United States, the South Vietnamese guerillas, and the North Vietnamese regime would have to make concessions. A cease-fire might entail large U.S. troop reductions, if not complete withdrawal. Steps toward unification would have to be slow and conservative, starting perhaps in areas such as postal service and student exchange. In the end, if negotiations do nothing else, they will at least give the U.S. a more concrete idea of who the guerillas represent...