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...mainland Asia. I think you are going to maintain the old line, or forward defense perimeter, that starts in the Aleutians and runs down through Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines and possibly Singapore. Your anchor will have to be the Philippines. There is no other anchor. Initially Singapore's facil ities will be available. But Singapore's facilities are going to be made available to Russia. Russian warships have been reported serviced and refitted in Singapore. Your military must be watching this...
Ironically his attack on simplistic French attitudes precedes his own incredibly facil analysis of the United States. Without Marx or Jesus hardly bothers with American society. It is relegated to a series of confused vignettes supposedly confirming Revel's thesis. Witness: Leonard Bernstein's Black Panther cocktail party demonstrates a great depth of revolutionary commitment; the opposition to the "no knock" search law shows the growth of civil libertarianism; the movie of The Strawberry Statement indicates artistic fervor; the Hare Krishna Society and the Jesus freaks glow with revolution; and so do all students, all women, all liberals...
...recommend planning by architects for community clusters where children, their parents and the elderly can intermingle, each group bringing its experience, knowledge and support to the other. University of Michigan's John Platt visualizes clusters he calls "childcare communities" which resemble communes: in addition to enlarged recreational and shopping facil ities, they would include centralized schoolrooms, dining rooms (for both adults and children) and kitchens...
What Salisbury saw - or was allowed to see - during his quick tour of Hanoi and its environs was, almost exclusively, widespread devastation in civilian areas; he was not taken near the military facil ities around those areas. "President Johnson's announced policy that American targets in North Viet Nam are steel and concrete rather than human lives," he wrote, "seems to have little connection with the reality of attacks carried out by U.S. planes." He reported 89 killed in one town, 40 in another, 24 in a third. In Nam Dinh, third largest city in the North (population...
...phenomenon of fire whirls was discovered accidentally by the Allies during World War II. The vortexes enormous destructive power was thes demonstrated in a raid on Dresdes, Germany, where a special bombing pattern was purposely used to facil the formation of whirls, which killed over 100,000 people...