FOR as long as the U.S. has been fighting in Southeast Asia, spasmodic crises in the war zone and frequent peaks of protest at home have drawn a wildly fluctuating fever chart. The Nixon Administration now faces a period of high temperature and uncertain remedy.
As the President grappled with a decision about further withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Communists last week launched a new offensive in South Viet Nam. The North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao continued a threatening drive in Laos. Simultaneously, the North Vietnamese managed to scare the precarious new government...