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...many South Vietnamese units crumpled with alarming speed. His choices included the resumption of massive bombing of the North, including possible air strikes against Hanoi itself, and the destruction of flood-preventing dikes. He could even send U.S. Marines into a hit-and-run attack above the DMZ to divert Hanoi's troops. He considered urging the South Vietnamese to stage a similar raid or to counterattack across the zone...
Responsibility for preventing such abuses rests with HUD Secretary George Romney, whose department includes the poorly administered FHA. In an eloquent if self-serving speech, Romney tried to divert attention to the broader problems of the ghetto, noting that bad housing was a result rather than a cause of ghetto squalor...
...could legitimately argue that South Viet Nam desperately needed new businesses to lift its weak economy. Desirable though the new businesses might be, however, many citizens doubted that the army should own and run them. Private businessmen feared that the army would use its power as a customer to divert revenues to its own companies. The army seemed likely to become the largest buyer of Foproco's canned foods, for example, and to have all its roads and bridges built by Vicco. Said an executive of one army company: "Private businessmen have a reason to worry. Our companies will...
Delfim brought in many stimulative innovations. Under a special investment tax credit, Brazilians now can divert 12% of their income tax obligations into mutual funds and watch their earnings grow. This has not only enlarged capital sources for industry but has started an epidemic of investment fever. Many workers are also buying stock with their own money, and the Sao Paulo stock exchange is one of the world's most active bourses; volume last year rose by 250%. One enterprising stock vendor even sends agents out in canoes to sell along the rivers of the interior...
Partly to divert attention from Uganda's growing financial problems, Amin has in the past threatened to invade neighboring Tanzania, which angered him by offering ex-President Obote shelter. He has also taken crowd-pleasing steps like putting economic pressure on the country's 80,000 Asians, who control most of its small businesses. If Big Daddy is unable to bolster Uganda's sagging economy, however, there is a chance that some day he might meet an unspecified "doom," which was also foretold in that long-ago vision...