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Defense spending has been increased 38% above last year's $716 million. Cir cumventing a British arms embargo, South Africa bought 41 British-made Centurions and Tigercat antiaircraft missiles from Jordan. For the first time, the armed forces are organizing battal ions of black, colored and Asian soldiers, and women are being encouraged to en list for rear-echelon duty...
Fading Away. Assigning top priority to making Saigon secure, the U.S. last month committed three combat battal ions to Operation Rang Dong, a long-range, large-scale drive that sent 2,500 U.S. troops against Viet Cong forces operating in the three provincial districts south and east of the city. Last week, to clear the Communists out of the area to Saigon's north, American forces launched the largest offensive of the war to date, sending 28 battalions and 34 batteries of artillery into the 25-sq.-mi. wedge known as the Iron Triangle, a notorious Communist strong hold...
Siqueiros thought he had the answer: the new painters were not fighters. He himself had served his first jail sentence at 13 (for sparking a student strike). At 15 he became a lieutenant in the Battalón Mama, a children's army which did yeoman service for liberal Venustiano Carranza in his 1913 Constitutionalist uprising. In 1922 he wrote an art manifesto which his two fellow revolutionists of Mexico's Big Three in painting, Rivera and Orozco, both signed. Its thesis: painting is social propaganda and should have nothing to do with ivory tower esthetes or private...
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