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Facing up to this ferment, the Pentagon is about to ask Congress to approve sharp revisions in R.O.T.C. The Air Force wants to cut four-year A.F.R.O.T.C. to two, beginning in a student's junior year, with weekly class time reduced from five hours to three. Sweetening its bid with scholarships, the Air Force hopes to wind up with far more career officers, yet spend a lot less money. Also saving money in the new budget, the Army has cut out high school R.O.T.C., which enrolled 60,000 students and cost...
...Soviet Union, 1962 has been a year of economic ferment unmatched since the early days of industrialization and the forced collectivization of the '30s. In this atmosphere, Nikita Khrushchev this week opens the plenum of the party's Central Committee, an assortment of some 2,000 committee members and other party workers summoned from factories and fields across Russia. The meeting is two months overdue; Khrushchev delayed calling it because he had hoped that things would settle down-domestically, that...
...Caudillo defeated the Republicans in Spain's bloody Civil War and built his stern, stable military regime in the proud, suffering land. Today, he seems as confident as ever that the regime can go on forever. But all the signs dispute him. There is in Spain a ferment and unrest that signals change ahead...
Some of the Pretender's backers want El Rey to get tough and exploit the ferment in Spain with a rousing declaration to speed Franco's end. Some Spaniards even say that he should go back and live on Spanish soil. Don Juan refuses. "Couldn't . . . It'd raise problems . . . I'd be accused of meddling in politics," he mutters. He can only steer the lonely and precarious course of not publicly antagonizing Franco and yet suggesting to the waiting Spanish people how he feels about the regime that in 1945 he called...
...election outcome hangs not only the future of Haya and his APRA, but the course that Peru will take-a country of 11 million stretching for 1,400 miles down South America's Pacific coast, and plagued by all the ills that keep Latin America in explosive ferment...