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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increases number of advisers to 685, the maximum permitted by Geneva treaty. Number increased to 900 by December. Communists reorganize into National Liberation Front of South Viet Nam, with Viet Cong as its military arm...
...unpopular. The more difficult-and therefore usually the more dangerous-a decision, the more clearly it is the duty of "opinion leaders" to raise questions, doubts and warnings. Whatever the ultimate historical verdict on the bombing and mining, a free press cannot be a cheering section or a propaganda arm of the Government-even if a longed-for settlement in Viet Nam might bring about a truce as well between Nixon and the reporters who, after all, are paid to maintain a critical...
Many aspects of Aeroflot are difficult to assess. As the civilian arm of the Soviet Military Air Command, the airline is shrouded in security. Aeroflot pilots generally receive the same training -rated good by Western experts-as those in the Soviet military. They also have to undergo a physical examination before each flight. As for its planes, the airline itself clearly has doubts about one of them. All Antonov-10 aircraft, formerly workhorses of the Aeroflot domestic fleet, have been removed from passenger service since the Ukraine crash...
With his attractive wife Hjördis on his arm, Actor-Turned-Storyteller David Niven flew into London to plug his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, and disclosed that he has nearly finished his first novel, which he calls his "secret project." Next month, armed only with "an absolutely appalling desire to be frightened," he comes to the U.S. for a tour of the college lecture circuit. His topics? "I haven't a clue to what I'll be talking about. I'll just improvise on the spot, I think...
...open bureaucratic doors, however, when a donor wants to be sure his case gets a fair hearing before some arm of Government. That feeling, more than any outright payoff for a proffered gift, probably was behind the Nixon Administration's error in the ITT controversy. Top ITT executives got to talk with officials in the Justice Department?an opportunity the small businessman, or the noncontributor, rarely gets...