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...headquarters, a number of intelligence evaluators disagree with the optimists who report directly to Director Richard Helms on Viet Nam. The CIA does, nevertheless, unite to take potshots at the DIA's overly hopeful judgments. The two intelligence agencies are in such sharp discord that when Lyndon Johnson recently ordered them to come up with a figure on the size of Communist forces, they were unable to comply...
...contingent was trained in Lincoln Park to control crowds, administer first aid and break through police lines. Using a technique perfected by Japanese students, they locked arms and snake-danced around baseball dia monds, chanting ''Wash-air (a Japanese expression urging enthusiasm). They also practiced karate. "To remain passive in the face of escalating police brutality is foolish and degrading," said David Baker, a Committee leader from Detroit, who was leading the practice. "The advice used to be that you should give police a flower and say 'Hello, brother.' But it didn't stop...
...surfaced when we requested details tor a cross-section drawing of the boat that would make features of its design graphically clear to readers from Newport to Sydney to the Isle of Wight. When Researcher Mimi Conway called at Mosbacher's office in New York to discuss the dia gram, he smilingly said, "I think I have exactly what your editors want for this." Thereupon he handed her a folder that turned out to be a promotion piece for the TIME-LIFE Books volume, Age of Exploration, containing a diagram of the Mayflower. Ultimately, though, he and his associates...
...plasma. But only a small portion of X-ray energy is used to form the plasma sheath. Most of the remainder is converted into a shock wave that races through the missile. At a distance of two miles, the impact of the shock wave on a 6½-ft. dia. 30-megaton warhead would be equivalent to the explosion of 2 or 3 Ibs. of TNT within the missile, which may be enough to set off some of the lens-shaped charges of conventional explosives inside (see diagram). These, in turn, would cause the remaining lens-shaped explosives to detonate...
...nations directly border on the battlefields of South Viet Nam, Cambo dia and Laos. Both are nominally neutral, both are headed by princes, both are inevitably caught up in the struggle of Southeast Asia. Last week each of the princes offered rare public observations on the ambiguities of neutrality so close to the shooting. > Cambodian Prince Norodom Siha nouk's neutrality for his nation is self-styled in faintly Peking tints. His Royal Khmer army is Communist-armed and equipped. Though he has broken off diplomatic relations with the U.S. for alleged border violations, Sihanouk conveniently ignores...