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...Marine Corps personnel, and it could grow to 350,000 "without call-up of reserves, generally extending terms of service, or withdrawal of units from Europe or Korea." If there were another emergency elsewhere in the world, he said, the U.S., by drawing on reserves and active units, could deploy an additional nine divisions (350,000 men) abroad within three months...
...third nuclear decade, the world faces a new kind of threat. Even as the likelihood of all-out war between the U.S. and Russia recedes, the danger now and for years to come is not only that Communist China will develop and deploy an atomic arsenal, but that a succession of smaller nations will be under increasing and perhaps irresistible pressure to join the nuclear arms race. Britain's Disarmament Minister, Lord Chalfont, described this prospect last week as "the principal and most urgent problem facing us today." Chalfont thus echoed his opposite number, William C. Foster, director...
...vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields her lady crusaders and Colonel Burt Lancaster must deploy more horse soldiers to keep the girls out of trouble...
...must be won, as every American general admits, in the South on the ground. But by whom? There are three possibilities. One could deploy Saigon soldiers alone, Saigon soldiers with U.S. advisors, or Saigon soldiers and a massive number of American fighting troops. The first two possibilities have failed; Johnson is obviously reluctant to try the third, and with good reason. Such an American offensive would unite practically the entire Vietnamese nation against the United States. America would be fighting alongside a tiny minority of South Vietnamese who would lose everything if Ho Chi Minh took over, and against everyone...
...rolling over uneven ground. (His.) On Inauguration Day, suspecting that Nancy and Lyndon had prearranged key spots for her to be in, Rather shadowed her like a spy who had been left out in the cold. When he would catch sight of an NBC camera crew, Rather would quickly deploy a CBS crew to the same place...