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EVER since the 1968 Tet offensive, officials in Washington and Saigon have recoiled from any excessive hopefulness about progress in the Viet Nam War. But hope is a hardy plant. For several months, a mood of guarded optimism has been budding in Washington, as dispatches from the field tell of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Vietnamization: Policy Under Fire | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

In Richard McCarthy's investigation of CBW there were few people on the high ground, taking a position that was stronger and more effective than McCarthy's. The failures of his position slip by unnoticed, attributed not to the weakness of McCarthy's stance but to the foibles of an...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: From the ShelfThe Ultimate Folly | 2/7/1970 | See Source »

An indication that Hanoi is thinking more than ever of a protracted struggle rather than a quick victory came recently from Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero of the victory over the French at Dienbienphu. Writing in two North Vietnamese political journals, Giap offered no hope for the swift, decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: North Viet Nam: Year of the Dog | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

The Royal Free's doctors had good reason for beginning with a strictly medical approach. Some of the victims' symptoms included loss of feeling in the extremities and severe muscle weakness. In a few cases with paralysis, poliomyelitis was suspected-reasonably enough, since there was an outbreak of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Mass Hysteria | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Greene, meanwhile, is proceeding with a sociopsychological striptease of Aunt Augusta. For while she has the pouter-pigeon arrogance of a Wilde dowager, she is revealed after a dance of the seven veils as a smuggler, a member of a group of traveling tarts, and a lover of men who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hamlet's Aunt | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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