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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aussie patience and tenacity is near legendary. One eleven-man patrol tracked a single Viet Cong sniper silently through dense jungle for 14 hours before it caught and killed him. In their 14-month stint in force in Viet Nam, the Aussies count 146 killed and 192 wounded Viet Cong, to 24 killed and 132 wounded Australians. The total of enemy casualties is probably far too low for the damage the Aussies have done, because of their own stiff accounting standards. No enemy dead is ever claimed unless an Aussie can walk up and put his foot on the body...
Scarce and costly credit has curbed not only housebuilding, but also corporate expansion, the principal base of the long economic advance. Construction starts of new factories slipped by $500 million, or 61% , in the latest count, which covers the first quarter of the year. Between January and March the gross national product rose by a worrisome $17 billion, which would work out to 91% a year; during the second quarter, it climbed by a less inflationary $10 billion, or 5.5% a year. Ackley and other White House economists expect the economy to expand at only about half that rate...
...request for secrecy was understandable, for Crepin's successor as NATO's top operational commander was a former German panzer officer, General Johann Adolf Count von Kielmansegg, 59. Equally understandable was German reluctance to overplay the fact that Bonn's 400,000-man Bundeswehr looms even larger than before in the alliance's military structure...
Dangerous Wildcats. Britain's government leaders have often mismanaged the economy, and its executives have often been unimaginative, but Britons themselves are increasingly blaming their productivity plight on the backward-looking trade unions, which count 9,900,000 members. Mired in a Depression-era mentality and still committed to the concept of class struggle, many unionists have an inexplicable fear that the grim layoffs of the 1930s will reoccur. They are not likely to. In Scotland alone, there are now 154 jobs available for every 100 men looking for work, and unemployment throughout Britain is at a ten-year...
Other shortages have arisen with the step-up in military charters for hauling troops and cargo to Southeast Asia. The military pays only about one-third as much per seat as civilians do, but because the lines can count on close-to-capacity loads and greater utilization of planes, the profits on military flights are not much lower than on civilian ones. Biggest military-airlift supplier is Pan Am, which already has 16 of its 100 jets on Viet Nam duty under a $44 million contract. Pan Am has cut its summer-peak transatlantic schedule from 288 to 266 flights...