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Blueprint of Restraint. As for the contents of his message, Johnson remains convinced that a nation whose G.N.P. is approaching $800 billion can simultaneously fight a war in Viet Nam and advance his Great Society at home. "We are going to have a better America," he recently told some associates. "We've made mistakes, of course, but we are determined to correct them. We're proud of our programs, and we're going to keep improving them. If any of you think I'm going to make the kids in the Head Start program, the poor...
...word from the White House was that the President's State of the Union speech will be a blueprint of restraint compared with last year's ringing promises of guns and butter. He is expected to place more emphasis on the need for some belt tightening to fight the Viet Nam war. He will probably request a 10% to 15% increase in social security benefits and new programs in the health, welfare and urban-rehabilitation fields; he is particularly interested, for example, in a program to build nursing homes that would be "the kind of place I would...
Battle Refuge. Sparsely populated Laos (2,500,000 people) has little of value to fight over. But it is strategically situated at the axis of six other nations with which it shares common borders: Red China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Viet Nam. Through the eastern half of Laos, controlled by the Pathet Lao, stretches the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which the North Vietnamese regularly infiltrate South Viet Nam. More than 75,000 North Vietnamese troops are now on Laotian soil, between 20,000 and 30,000 of them combat troops and the rest antiaircraft units, engineers...
Other Americans used their missiles to equal effect. Standing off from the Communist cannon fire, they locked on target with radar and sent six more MIGs down in flaming fragments. The entire fight took scarcely 12 minutes-a commentary on the speed of modern warfare-and only one Phantom was damaged (hit by chunks of a disintegrating MIG). When they returned to base, the flyers received well-earned recognition: a third Silver Star for Olds, Distinguished Flying Crosses for the 13 other aviators who had scored...
Deliberately building a slum for hillbillies might seem an odd way to fight poverty. Except in this case the squalid hollow will be called "Dogpatch," and the developers stand to make a pile. Cartoonist Al Capp, 57, agreed to let a group of Little Rock entrepreneurs use his Yokum hokum in the construction of a sort of yokel Disneyland on 800 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks around Marble Falls. "It will have log cabins and Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren...