Show Chance For A wave of charges and replies has swept the country on the question whether the Nixon Administration missed a chance for peace in Vietnam four years THE ISSUE of a political one in a campaign if the charge were it would be of legitimate interest to all few are able to determine the of charges made by two former highly-placed Harriman and Cyrus and the party's Vice Presidential Sargent EVEN IF there is some truth to the the fact remains that the Nixon Administration has withdrawn American troops from brought about half a million of vast majority-home and has made several major concessions in an effort to obtain a These are not debatable It is a fact that President Nixon in 1969 initiated the secret talks and that he has succeeded in softening the militancy of both China and Russia in their support of IT IS a fact that Nixon inherited U. S. involvement in the by a Democratic administration and expanded by another Democratic and greatly expanded by another Democratic Thus the argument that President Nixon should have ended that war in his first year in office is if only because the record shows the Democrats launched and expanded it while Nixon has considerably deescalated it and withdrawn all U. S. troops from |