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...candidates. Thus, unlike the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong armies, ARVN offers little opportunity for skilled soldiers to rise up from the ranks. The result is that it suffers both in loss of potential talent and in its political image among the peasantry. Until recently, Abrams had made little dent at all in opening up the military establishment, but just last week he won a promise from the government to promote between 4,000 and 6,000 from the ranks, based on individual performances during the Tet fighting. If Saigon does so, that will be a major breakthrough...
...back up from 163 to 207. But the rate did not go up in the crackdown areas; all the increase was in previously low-crime areas. Headley thinks that means that the crackdown has driven some criminals into new territory. The obvious conclusion: intensified police work can make a dent in crime but it is no substitute for sufficient numbers of policemen in a well-run department...
...Vinh Long '68 is a Vietnamese student at Harvard who tried to make a dent in Washington earlier this month. He came away quietly disillusioned...
...think the Resistance is making a dent that will carry over. If nothing else, it's producing a pretty tough, rugged bunch of people dedicated to change. Whether or not they go to prison, they've done a lot and grown up an awful lot. I've seen lives change in days. Some come out of prison raring to go. One guy was in jail for 14 months, was out less than a day, dropped by our office, picked up a thousand leaflets, and left to hand them...
Certainly Ford reflected the popular mood when he said that cutting Government spending was a better way to fight inflation than raising taxes, as Johnson proposes, but the fact is that Congress failed either to raise taxes or make an appreciable dent in spending. The Republicans tried, to be sure, but the only specific saving Dirksen would gloat over was foreign aid, the program with no broad lobby in this country. And when Ford attacked the "pretty bad record" of the 89th, he was forgetting the millions of voters benefiting from that Congress's historically significant output. The present...