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Anti-Guerrillas. Once dropped behind enemy lines, the task forces seek out partisan leaders and willing followers and set up clandestine schools. The guerrillas can remove an appendix, fire a foreign-made or obsolete gun, blow up a bridge, handle a bow and arrow, sweet-talk some bread out of a native in his own language, fashion explosives out of chemical fertilizer, cut an enemy's throat (Peking radio calls the operators "Killer Commandos"), live off the land. The all-important aim is to elicit support from the local people by promises, threats, bribes, or by any other means...
...under various conditions and under the impact of various policies. Says Walter Heller: "We simply know a whole lot more about where we are than we ever did before." The accumulation of detailed economic data, plus the refinement of statistical techniques, has brought about what Stanford Economics Professor Kenneth Arrow calls the "professionalization" of economics. By broadening the areas of fact, the professionalization has narrowed the areas of theory, of disagreement, and blurred the old boundaries between liberals and conservatives...
...result has been a waning of controversy among economists. Today, says Kenneth Arrow, "you have to find a real crackpot to get an economist who doesn't accept the principle of Government intervention in the business cycle...
...Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University: I would expect the economy to show some improvement by autumn or the end of the year. But there is a need for Government pump-priming - unbalancing the budget - until private investment overcomes its static condition...
...STRAIGHT ARROW...