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...military buildup in the area of Danang would help the U.S. in any future negotiations with North Viet Nam-which puts him close to Johnson's position. And L.B.J. could not have asked for warmer support on the Dominican Republic. While Lippmann has always been wary of far-flung commitments overseas, he considers it perfectly proper for the U.S. to maintain order in its own backyard. "The Dominican Republic lies squarely within the sphere of influence of the U.S., and it is normal for a great power to insist that within its sphere of influence no other great power...
Turbulence and bloody conflict embraced the U.S. from two far-flung fronts. One was the old and ugly war in South Viet Nam 6,500 miles away; the other was a raw, new and unexpected rebellion in the Dominican Republic, 600 miles off U.S. shores (see THE HEMISPHERE). On both fronts, President Lyndon Johnson last week acted swiftly with strength of purpose...
...foreign aid programs to join the Peace Corps, has been credited by Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver as being "more than any other man" responsible for making the Corps work. Wiggins will supervise the activities of the Peace Corps' 10,683 volunteers and far-flung staff, including his parents, aged 67 and 66, who recently returned from a two-year stint as volunteers in Peru and now hold staff jobs at a Peace Corps training camp in Puerto Rico...
...managed to get on agreeably with the leaders of France and West Germany-no easy feat, particularly in Paris. Despite anguished cries from the pacifist left of his own party, Wilson has supported the U.S. in Viet Nam and made plain his intention to keep Britain's far-flung military establishment intact and in service to the West from Aden to Malaysia...
Rigid Auditing. A longtime Providence banker who was brought into Textron by Founder Royal Little in 1954 as Little's heir apparent, taciturn, trim-waisted Rupe Thompson runs his far-flung company with a staff of only 83 people on one floor of a Providence office building. He allows his divisions to operate almost autonomously, much as at General Motors, a corporation that Thompson has studied minutely and admires mightily. His staff coordinates the company's affairs, channels profits where needed. "I'm all for delegating responsibility," says Thompson, "but I also ask for accountability." That takes...