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...whom it once backed) and his Royal Laotian Army could never win a war against the Communist guerrillas, now considers its best hope is to make Laos into a neutral buffer state. But Phoumi and Boun Oum have danced away from every effort by U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown to align them in a neutral government. Praising Phoumi's stubborn resistance to U.S. policy, a supporter said: "When you hit a horse on the nose, he doesn't move back ward. He just rears up on his hind legs and comes down in the same place...
Finally, should the Alliance recognize rapid, full industrialization as the logical solution to Haiti's land and population problems, they will have no means of initiating it. Constituted to work through existing governments, the Alliance must align itself with Duvalier's intentions, which, as he says, do not include industrial development, and more than half the country is idle more than half the year. The Cuban experience has already begun to prove that immediate industrial development in the Caribbean is neither utopian nor impossible when a major power fully commits itself to the effort...
...central agency" had been created, too much money was going into overhead (as much as 36.2 cents being spent in raising each dollar), the public continued to be in the dark about how the money was spent and the agencies were continually fighting among themselves rather than attempting to align their efforts with those of the federal government...
...begins with an analysis of the deterrence strategy that has dominated American military doctrine for the last 15 years. In our failure (1) to align our diplomatic policy with military strategy, and (2) to make adequate provisions for a policy should deterrence fail, we have laid ourselves open to the danger of being paralyzed by our arsenal (1) if threatened with all-out war, and (2) if faced with nuclear blackmail in a limited conflict. By making all strategy contingent on the former, we have failed to come to grips with the latter. "Against an opponent known to consider nuclear...
...assisted by John Cedarholm of International Business Machines, Dr. Townes set up his ether-hunting apparatus in IBM's Watson Laboratory at Columbia. Two masers were arranged so that they shot their microwaves in opposite directions. As the masers (and the lab) swung with the turning earth to align the waves first with the direction of the earth's motion around the sun and then against it, any ether wind should have shown as an easily detected difference of frequency. But the recording pen never wavered...