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During the Diem rule, the U.S. backed the "Strategic Hamlet Program" and tried to initiate reforms that would broaden the popular support of the Saigon government. This policy was based on reliable information about what should be done, but the U.S. has not had the ability either to check on the results of Diem's hamlet program or to insure that the Vietnamese even carried them...
Such stock manipulations, if they occurred, are only one of Merritt-Chapman's misfortunes under Wolfson. Another is that he tried to build up and broaden the company too fast. Bled by such acquisitions as the unprofitable New York Shipbuilding Corp., the firm's profits and dividends have been dropping; in 1966, there was a loss of $740,000 and no dividend at all. To halt the drain, Wolfson sold off a paint company, a small steel mill, the company's derrick division and a small shipyard, but the future seems so stormy that liquidation...
...drafters of the proposal hope that it will broaden the activities of the "honoraries" by making them compete for members. They also expect it to increase the prestige of the non-honorary organizations, because every organization will now have some members from the top quarter of the class...
...Housing and Urban Development would be directed to exhaust every means of conciliation before taking a case to court. Other civil rights proposals, which by themselves would meet with general approval in Congress, would guarantee fair selection of Southern juries, give greater federal protection to civil rights workers, and broaden the authority of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...fight against the draft is necessary and possible: Not by mouthing McNamara's "Abolish 2-S," but by fighting for an end to the draft itself and reforms consistent with that end. While these reforms are (like all reforms) obfuscations of the ultimate goal, mobilizing support for them can broaden the base of our movement, and bring nearer the time when it will be politically impossible for a Johnson to wage a Vietnam...