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...McNamara's statement reached Westmoreland, the general was hopping mad. Having returned to the U.S. to attend the funeral of his 81-year-old mother in Columbia, S.C., he flew up to Washington to confer with the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon. He was barely able to conceal his anger over the suggestion that U.S. forces were not being used at full efficiency. It seemed he was taking a bum rap so the President and McNamara could hold down the budget deficit and avert a bigger tax increase...
Some nations could scarcely conceal their glee at the crisis. Venezuela, the world's third biggest oil producer after the U.S. and the Soviet Union, has increased production by 7%. Oil-rich Iran, predominantly Moslem but non-Arab, hopes to increase its oil output this year by 20%, to more than $700 million worth; last week new Iranian terminals at Kharg Island and Bandar Mashur were clogged to capacity while a dozen tankers waited offshore for loading space...
...inexorably to a non-conclusion?" As for columnists, "I wonder if they would be so lavishly used if they were not dirt cheap; if it was not possible for an editor or a publisher to obtain for a song so much copy of such high respectability?" Many columnists "conceal an idea the size of a pea in a stack of dry straw. Does nobody discipline them? Does nobody make them rewrite or throw a column away? Are they sacred cows that are allowed to wander unmolested through your pages...
...ideological sense. He was in fact a pretty conservative fellow. But he did not like to see little people pushed around. It was that simple with him. He didn't care what color the little people were. He held in utter contempt those political poses designed to conceal social brutalities in a region that deserved better leadership, and he didn't scare...
...even a crow flying across the triangle will have to carry lunch from now on. Moreover, the U.S. intends to spend much of 1967 scorching the enemy's earth all over Viet Nam. Next likely candidates are War Zone C, bordering on Cambodia and thought to conceal the Viet Cong's national headquarters; the U Minh "forest of darkness" in the delta; and Zone D just east of the Iron Triangle...