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...John Foster Dulles was the greatest of the cold-war warriors. His were the fightingest years of that war-and part of his skill was that not one single American died in battle...
...from "The Art of Singing Folk Songs" to the crassly commercial "What the Editor Wants: Media Placement in Public Relations." In the spring of 1965, the New School ran a course on the Warren Commission findings; this term it has a continuing series of lectures on the Viet Nam war-and it quickly signed up Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times for a 70-minute report almost as soon as he returned from Hanoi...
...gunrunners. Suddenly, two U.S. Phantom jets flashed out of the sky, inexplicably assuming that the cutter was an enemy trawler. Page drowsily stumbled on deck and was immediately riddled with shrapnel. At 22, Page had become the first allied correspondent to be wounded three times in the Viet Nam war-and survive...
...building in Hanoi and contemplates his war maps, Vo Nguyen Giap today confronts a far more difficult situation. Unlike his ill-fated French predecessors, who were told to make do with the troops on hand, U.S. Commander William C. Westmoreland has been promised everything he needs to win the war-and has been getting it. Allied troops already outnumber Giap's forces in the South by over 4 to 1, and there are more to come: an estimated 100,000 more U.S. fighting men to be added to the 275,000 who are now "in-country...
...Sponge. The rush to do business with China dismays Washington, which has maintained a total embargo on Peking trade since the Korean War-and has tried with diminishing success to persuade its allies to do the same. The nations of Western Europe have agreed not to sell the Chinese any "strategic" goods, but opinions vary considerably about just what trade there should be. It would appear obvious that steel is highly strategic. The Germans argue that they are not really providing the Chinese with steel but merely with a plant to process steel that China would produce anyway...