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From the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam, three Somali envoys ventured forth to survey the battlefront. They found nothing whatever happening. Finally, with characteristic panache, General Amin himself toured the border and announced proudly that everything was "peaceful and calm" once more. Back in Dar, a Tanzanian spokesman summed up the wole affair as "utter nonsense." To which watchers of Amin might add "Amen...
Indeed, Ervin seems to be commanding almost every battlefront against the Administration. Last week alone...
...charge that the State Department was "soft on Communism." When the invasion of South Korea started, Truman reacted with typical dispatch. In a space of 60 hours, he ordered U.S. forces into battle and got U.N. endorsement. When General Douglas MacArthur tried to bully him from abroad and issued battlefront ukases challenging U.S. policy, Truman did not hesitate. He recalled the hero of World War II despite public and political uproar. Truman's reaction was characteristic: "General MacArthur was insubordinate and I fired him. That's all there...
During the Great Depression, the work ethic flourished because people faced destitution unless they could find something productive to do. World War II intensified the work ethic under the banner of patriotism. While the boys were on the battlefront, the folks on the home front serenaded Rosie the Riveter; a long day's work was a contribution to the national defense. In sum, the American work ethic is rooted in Puritan piety, immigrant ambition and the success ethic; it has been strengthened by Depression trauma and wartime patriotism...
...entire day, a seemingly endless convoy of trucks poured into the town, carrying troops from the 21st Division, normally stationed deep in the Mekong Delta. Everyone seemed confident, except for the American helicopter crews waiting to carry some high-level U.S. military observers to the battlefront. "They'll never win this war as long as the Vietnamese let those guys fly choppers," said one Army captain, gesturing toward the dozing crew of a ramshackle Vietnamese Air Force "Huey." "These guys can't fight and won't fight. You'll never catch them in the air after...