Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thailand, and one of Marcos' objectives in visiting Washington was to warn that without more U.S. help, the Philippines could well turn into the Viet Nam of the 1970s. Absurd? Only 15 years ago, the Communist Huk guerrillas came perilously close to taking over the nation. Even now, central Luzon is seeing a recrudescence of Huk terror as some 1,000 armed guerrillas, supported by an estimated 27,000 peasants, prowl the forests...
...week promised his guest everything he came to Washington to get. The U.S. agreed to: - Provide an added $21 million (to the current $24 million) for such agricultural programs as irrigation, rice growing and rural electrification. - Equip ten army battalions (cost: $20 million) for rural-development projects, especially in central Luzon...
...central Luzon, Marcos' own formula is a blend of military and civic action, with emphasis on the latter. "Call it anything you like," he says, "community development, civic action, rural reconstruction, revolutionary development. It boils down to offering a better life to the peasant." That, as the Johnson Administration emphasized in the Honolulu Declaration of February 1966, may ultimately prove the only formula for success in Viet Nam as well...
Leap & Smash. Since the 18,000 men of the Air Cav arrived in Viet Nam just a year ago, they have killed more than 5,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops, and lost only 900 dead of their own. Their swift sorties into the Red-dominated central highlands have captured 1,200 other Communist troops, along with some 2,000 weapons. Chinese-manufactured machine guns line the walk leading to Air Cav Major General John Norton's headquarters located near An Khe, a proud display of hard-won enemy weaponry. Air Cav troopers, using the strategy of General...
...spun accounts of domestic skulduggery, international chicanery, congressional conniving, and White House squeeze plays-all of which spell bestsellerdom. What's more, old Senate Reporter Drury (who used to work for the New York Times) this time has heated up a special groin iron for political pundits. The central character here is a columnist named Walter Dobius ("Walter Wonderful"). And though Dobius may not resemble any single real-life oracle, readers can be forgiven if they detect a little bit of Walter Lippmann, a little bit of Scotty Reston, and a dash of Joe Alsop...