Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deteriorating. Unless new actions are taken, the new government will probably be unstable and ineffectual and the VC will probably continue to extend their hold over the population and territory. It can be expected that, soon (6 months? two years?), (a) government officials at all levels will adjust their behavior to an eventual VC takeover, (b) defections of significant military forces will take place, (c) whole integrated regions of the country will be totally denied to the GVN, (d) neutral and/or left-wing elements will enter the government, (e) a popular front regime will emerge which will invite...
...Maybe I, all alone, without help from anyone, must be all right, must fit in, must carve out a little niche where I won't be bothered in a world which can grant me nothing of what I really desire. Maybe I must adjust my desires to what the world will grant, and be what has been, and thus hope it will always be, because vicious and unpleasant though it may be, it is real and requires no faith, no struggle, to achieve it; and it will accept me in my smallness and not blame my failures but reward...
...defense, Restic uses both odd and even man fronts, and he' rolls his defense to adjust to pre-determined weak spots. "We know in advance where the weak spot is on any given defensive formation," Restic said last week. "So when the other team begins to go to that spot, we can adjust immediately and they have to begin probing for the new weak point...
...about the effectiveness of our intelligence operations and our ability to draw policy conclusions from intelligence information. It is extraordinary how often our side was wrong about what the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong could and would do. We have consistently underestimated their military capability-especially their ability to adjust to our moves-and we have overestimated their interest in negotiating. We possess tons of captured enemy documents. We have interrogated thousands of prisoners and flown thousands of reconnaissance sorties. Our South Vietnamese allies presumably have agents on the ground in North Viet Nam. Yet the enemy has repeatedly surprised...
AGRICULTURAL TARIFFS. Britain wants several years to adjust from the import of lower-priced U.S. and Commonwealth foodstuffs to the Common Market's high-priced produce, which is protected by tariffs. The switch will mean a rise of as much as 28% in British food costs. The Six agreed to a timetable that allows Britain five crop years after entry to make the change. As a result, price markups on foodstuffs in Britain will come gradually, and the full impact on the British cost of living will not be felt until the late 1970s. The Benelux representatives, whose farmers...