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...village, Ninh Chu. The Communists retreated into Thieu's old home, confident that he would not fire on his own house. Says Thieu with grim satisfaction: "I shot in my own house." The only cause for criticism the young officer ever gave his superiors was an innate caution that made him less aggressive than they sometimes would have preferred-a reluctance to commit his troops to battle unless he felt absolutely sure he could win. It was a trait Thieu was to carry into politics...
...thing that irritates and perplexes Americans is the political caution inherent in a limited war. "It is not civilian control that the intelligent military man objects to," said the army general who ran the World War II Manhattan Project, Leslie Groves, in 1959. "It is the constant interference with the operations necessary to accomplish the missions assigned. The wise housekeeper stays out of the kitchen when the cook is preparing dinner." The grand philosopher of warfare, Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, approached the question from quite a different perspective. "The subordination of the political point of view to the military...
...Tests v. Caution. Before announcing the filter, Columbia had an independent commercial laboratory test its efficiency on eleven cigarette brands. The results: an average reduction of 68% in tar to 8 mg., and a cut of 67% in nicotine to .38 mg. The effect on Salems: an 87% cut in tar content from 21.5 mg. to 2.8 mg., and a cut in nicotine from 1.07 mg. to 0.11 mg. For Marvels (recently reported by leading cancer researchers to be the nation's safest cigarette): a cut in tars from 8.6 mg. to 3.7 mg., and in nicotine, from...
...CAUTION, PLEASE! admonished a crudely painted sign across the store Window. I AM YOUR SOUL BROTHER...
Consensus on Caution. In general, editorial opinion stood foursquare behind Israel. Minor irritation was expressed by some newspapers at the lack of U.S. preparedness for the crisis, but few editorials took issue with President Johnson's policy of cautious watchfulness. The commitment to Israel had to be upheld, said the editorials, but it would be better for the U.S. to rally allies to its side and not try to go it alone. All newspapers agreed that the great powers must now get together and try to keep the peace permanently in the area. "The Arabs and Israelis alone cannot...