"It looks bad for Lewis, " said York van Nixon while questioning the Lewis camp's earlier actions.

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When Christmas was still Christmas, a paid-up Jewish liberal like Anthony Lewis could get seasonal outrage out of Nixon's and Kissinger's bombardment of Vietnam, referring with high-minded irony to the "Christmas bombing, " almost as if hardened Vietnamese Marxists would have preferred to be strafed on Labor Day.

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