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...last U.S. advisers had been helicoptered out. Immediately, the Communists set up a "revolutionary administration" in the city. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu angrily relieved both the commander of Military Region I, General Hoang Xuan Lam, and the 3rd Division's commander, General Vu Van Giai. No replacement was named for Giai; there was no 3rd Division left...
...earlier material seems necessary, even when some of the new directions promise to be less consequential; attempts to reawaken the old are simply unsuccessful. "Give a Damn," a "talking song" on Paul and was a theme song for the Urban Coalition. It evokes, above all, a sense of deja vu. Its point is that arm-chair liberals are hypocrites--not an especially novel insight...
There was so much China coverage before the visit-and so much repetition during it-that some faithful viewers succumbed to an advanced case of deja vu. Part of the problem was the 13-hour time difference between Peking and New York. Live coverage of evening events reached the U.S. early in the morning and was repeated on the news that night. Even the President's visit to the Great Wall failed to provide the dramatic impact that might have been expected, and CBS canceled planned live coverage of his tour of the Forbidden City. "I just thought...
...feel a little guilty wasting one's time on such froth. A Wodehouse novel goes in one hemisphere of the brain and out the other, leaving little more behind than a television situation comedy--some of his novels I've read twice with only the slightest feeling of deja vu. Still, at times one would rather watch a Three Stooges short than 2001, and it's somehow nice to know there are hundreds more Three Stooges episodes, even if there is only...
...Somehow, the idea of Richard Nixon landing in Peking, 6,922 miles away from home, seems at the moment to stir more excitement than what is for some the repetitive prospect of three more astronauts slinging 239,000 miles off the planet. The sense of déjá vu is especially unjustified for Apollo 15, because the mission is the most perilous to date, with greater than usual concern for the safety of the explorers (see SCIENCE...