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...record of failure dating back at least to the League of Nations' trade sanctions against Italy after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Other current U.S. embargoes are notably unsuccessful in either bringing down hostile regimes, muting their policies or stopping U.S. goods from getting through. Viet Nam has been subject to a trade ban since the 1975 fall of Saigon. Yet that country easily imports American products, ranging from drilling equipment and spare tractor parts to cigarettes and beer, by shipping them through Hong Kong or Singapore. Indeed, the ban is taken so lightly that Hong...
...biggest single Air Force contract since the Viet Nam War, and it is almost certain to be remembered as the arms deal that propelled the U.S. into the weapons-bristling decade of the 1980s. The prize was the $4 billion air-launched, cruise missile system that the U.S. is counting on to maintain a strategic edge over the Soviet Union for much of the remainder of the 20th century. The victor, not unexpectedly, was the Boeing Co. of Seattle, one of the nation's most successful corporations...
...pictures, taken in 1967 over Hanoi by a U.S. reconnaissance plane, freezes a terrifying moment in the Viet Nam War: an exploding SAM missile scoring a kill on a U.S. Phantom reconnaissance jet that has burst into flames. Another shot resembles a sort of hacksaw that turns out, on closer inspection, to be an assortment of bombers at a top-secret airfield in the Soviet Union. There are also high-altitude views of submarines nestling alongside their mother ships on the coast of the Barents Sea; a lunar-like landscape that is a Soviet hydrogen-bomb test site; a graceful...
Elvis has a deeper reservoir of hatred and bitterness than anyone in popular music, or even the Viet Cong, driving him, they say, to compose madly into the night, compressing his rage into song after song, until this: music with a pulse sustained by passion and fear, energy driven by emotion, not (hello Mick Jagger) cocaine. And the tunes deliver. The glory of Get Happy!! is that Elvis has composed 18 fresh, interesting, accessible but not uncomplicated melodies, and has, with true artistry, wedded their substance perfectly to their sound. It may be his best album. Certainly, it surpasses...
DIED. Allard K. Lowenstein, 51, Yale educated lawyer and liberal Democratic gadfly who led the anti-Viet Nam "Dump Johnson" movement that contributed to L.B.J.'s decision not to seek re-election in 1968; of four gunshot wounds, apparently inflicted by a former protege; in Manhattan. Lowenstein was active in the 1960s civil rights movement, went to the House from New York in 1968, but was never returned to Congress after that single two-year term...