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PRESIDENT NIXON had planned to go on national television with his long-awaited address to the nation announcing the next stage of troop withdrawals from Viet Nam. Instead, without formal notice, he commandeered a regularly scheduled 4 p.m. White House press briefing late last week to present the next step. On the existing schedule, U.S. troop strength will be down to 184,000 by the end of this month; Nixon subtracted another 45,000. Of that total, 25,000 will come out next month in a bring the boys home for Christmas gesture. Another 20,000 will be withdrawn...
...statistics grow larger with each year, but the meaning remains clear--the United States government is determined to use whatever means are necessary to safeguard its interests. When the cost in American troop casualties proved too high, commensurate with the benefits received, the American game plan changed, to replace American bodies with Asian corpses. Thai, Korean, Laotian, Cambodian, Meo, and Vietnamese mercenaries are employed to preserve America's pre-eminent position in Southeast Asia...
...troubles of Northern Ireland boiled over in many directions last week. In Dublin, the capital of the Irish Republic to the south, Prime Minister John Lynch attacked the British for troop violations of his border, and threatened to call upon the United Nations to police the area...
...reports (see THE PRESS) that I.R.A. suspects in Belfast were being brainwashed and tortured. In Ulster itself, where at least ten more died in one of the bloodiest weeks thus far, the British were blowing up roads along the Ulster-Eire border to stop gunrunning. They also boosted their troop force...
Twenty-nine years and twenty-odd books ago, Wright Morris brought out of Nebraska a troop of crabbed characters, blown a little lopsided by those howling winds of the Great Plains. Ever since, he has been putting them through literary paces that have justifiably made him the most admired of America's little-read novelists...