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...signal, however, was sent from Guam, where he enunciated the Nixon Doctrine of gradual U.S. military disengagement from the mainland of Asia. He followed up his words by beginning withdrawals from South Viet Nam, scaling down the U.S. presence in South Korea, and ordering an end to the Seventh Fleet's patrols in the Taiwan Strait. In his 1970 "State of the World" report, Nixon referred to the Chinese as "a great and vital people who should not remain isolated...
...arsenal free of charge to the South Vietnamese, including 1,200 aircraft from U-17 trainers to F-5 jet fighters, enough to give the South Vietnamese the world's seventh largest air force by 1974 or 1975. The Vietnamese navy already has received nearly all of a fleet of 1,600 boats and ships; the ground forces are getting-among other things-640,000 M-16 rifles, 20,000 machine guns, 34,000 grenade launchers, 870 howitzers, 10,000 81-mm. mortars, 220 M41 tanks, 1,000 armored personnel carriers, 44,000 trucks and 40,000 radios...
...been increasing suggestions that, at age 76, Hoover should resign. He has been criticized for making the FBI too much a lengthened shadow of his own philosophy. Though the critics aim chiefly at Hoover, the FBI's image suffers as well. It was discovered that Hoover keeps a fleet of armored limousines around the country that outnumbers the presidential limousines. Documents stolen by radical activists from the Media, Pa., FBI office outlined the agency's use of undercover informers; one memorandum encouraged local agents to exacerbate "the paranoia endemic in [New Left] circles that there...
SINGAPORE calmly allows the Chinese to operate a major bank on its soil, the North Koreans to run endless ads in its newspapers extolling the virtues of Kim Il Sung, and Soviet ships to call at its superb port. The Soviet fleet, says Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, could be a "useful balancing force" to growing Chinese and Japanese power...
...Louis and Columbus. From each franchise operator, the company gets a $10,000 fee and a 5% annual royalty on gross revenues. Lease-A-Plane supplies the aircraft, but each local operator must put up $50,000 to $75,000 within a year to buy an equity on a fleet of about eight Cessnas, Pipers and Beeches...