Nation: VIET NAM: TRYING TO BUY TIME

HOW to buy a little more patience —or perhaps lots more? How to buy it from the restless young who are streaming back to the campuses? How to buy it from the rest of the country, which so far has been willing to give Richard Nixon time to extricate the U.S. from Viet Nam? With an evident sense that time may soon begin to run out, the President last week made several moves. He announced a second withdrawal of troops from combat and a two-month moratorium on the draft. He applied new pressure on...

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