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...Last week Saigon revised its casualty totals for the bloody battle of Dongxoai. The toll: more than 700 government troops and 150 civilians dead v. an estimated 700 Viet Cong. But Saigon's new military leaders seemed ready and willing to keep up the grim ground battle. To buttress their fighting force, 600 U.S. paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were now holding a vital flank of Route 14, at the same time guarding the airstrip at Phuocvinh, a few miles from Bencat and Dongxoai...
...caused this decline: a 22% drop in the price of Australia's wool, a 33% plunge in the price of Ghana's cocoa, a surge in India's food imports. Ironically, the sterling area's ailments have been aggravated by Britain's attempts to buttress the pound and by the U.S.'s program to end its own payments deficit. Because of the cutback in U.S. and British loans and investment, Australia's reserves fell from $2 billion in January to $1.5 billion in May. India's reserves are down to an alltime...
High officials of the Federal Reserve Board believe that De Gaulle, aided by Spain's Franco, is trying to form a new European axis designed to embarrass and weaken the U.S. by attacking the dollar. To buttress the dollar, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. has been strongly urging President Johnson to move swiftly and dramatically to wipe out the deficit in the balance of payments. "Some way or other, something has to be done," Martin said recently. "It is important that we face up to the fact that we have become a chronic deficiteer-and that leaves...
...buttress his education program, Lyndon Johnson reached all the way back to the Continental Congress, which in 1787 proclaimed that schools "shall forever be encouraged," and to Mirabeau B. Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas and "the father of Texas education," who remarked in 1838 that "the cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy." The President also reached back to his own experience in Congress...
Whatever the reason, his failure in last week's struggle for power was not against neo-Stalinists-at least it did not appear that way-but against his own boys. Both Brezhnev and Kosygin were hand-picked by Nikita to buttress his domain, and consequently in the past they represented many of his own ideas and methods. On the face of it, they now stand for "Khrushchevism" without Khrushchev-the same show run more smartly, more carefully, with the old irritant out of the way. But somehow things never stay that simple for long in Soviet Russia...