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    "ocrText": "3/\nPOULTRY ASS'N\nPoint up the irony in the fact*x that the Soviet Union creatued an empire by\nforce of arms in the\n1940s and now is demanding that Israel withdruw to\nits old boundaries. You might ask what right the Soviets have to make\nsuch demands in the UN if they are not willing to withdraw theirfforces from\nEast Germany, Hungary, the Baltic states and other Soviet-occupied arees.\nYou might point to Republican efforts to ban aid to Egypt and current demands\nby members of both parties in Congre SS that aid be withheld from\nthe Arab countries which have 2 b roken diplomatic relation with the U.S. (See\nattached material for details on past aid to Arabs.) The U.S. was saved in\nthe Mideast only by Israel's lightning-swift victory. The record shows that\nwe helped arm the Arab nations as well as Israel.\nV\nBoth the Mideast and ietnam situations are an interesting commentary on U.S.-Soviet\nrelations. The Soviets armed the Arabs and fomented the Mideast\ntrouble; they\nare supplying North Vietnam with perhaps 80 per cent of its war goods and keeping\nthat war going. Yet the President\nthere is a basis for a\nfundamental accord between the Soviet Union and the U.S.\nin Vietnam\nand the Mideast. The Soviets became interested in\na Mideasta truce only\nwhen the country they were backing * (Egypt) got blobbered. It's reasonable to\nassume the same would be true in Vietnam. As long as we are being bled white\nthere in a war of creeping escalation, the Soviet Union has no reason to want the\nVietnam War to stop.\n4/ POULTRY ASS'N\nThese were Russian-made rockets.\nThe most recent evidence of Soviet x intentions in Vie tnam was the rocket attack\non the Danang Air Base, which killed eight U.S. servicemen and wounded 173. After\nreading of that attack, I became more convinced than ever that the Spirit of\nGlassboro exists only in Glassboro. This is not to deprecate the President's\nrole as peacemaker. The only intention is to point out the realities of the\nsituation. It is unproductive to live in a dream world.\n3. On Vietnam..\nThe situation there is very discouraging. If McNamara is correct in\nwaying we have stopped losing the Vietnam War, we have certainly not started\nwinning it. We tax have McNamara's hopeful reports on the military situation but\nhe was not so Pollyannish as to be optimistic about either the\npacification program or prospects for political stability in Saigon. The\ntruth is that without a successful x pacification program, gx genuine social\nreforms and popular sup ort for the government in Saigon a\nmilitary \"victory\" in South Vietnam would be quite meaningless. e would win\nFORD\nsome battles there but we would lose the war. Our objective of a free Vietnam\n8.\nyould elude us. In any case, it is difficult to believe that the military situation\nis as encouraging as McNamara has P reported. If military prospects are that\nbromising, why would Westmoreland have asked for an a dditional 100,000 troops or\nnore. Thex most frustrating aspect of the Vietnam situation is that the President\nstill is not telling the American people what the true picture is there. He is"
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