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...Reds massed an estimated 1,500 men at Binhgia-the third time in recent weeks that they had fielded a regiment-size unit (they did the same at Soctrang 90 miles south of Saigon a fortnight ago and at the battle of Anlao Valley in central Viet Nam last month). U.S. advisers suspect that the Viet Cong, swelled by 600 North Vietnamese regulars now being infiltrated monthly, may be trying to chew up government reserve battalions while testing their own ability to fight sustained actions. The Reds are also striking ever closer to major cities. Last week two Viet Cong...
...Church of England's canon law decrees that babies should be christened within a fortnight of birth. Parents are prone to stretch the deadline a bit, but now the whole practice is under fire. Three vicars have resigned from the Church of England, announcing that they no longer believe in infant baptism. Three others, with covert support from dozens of Low Church vicars, have informed their bishops that they will baptize only believing adults...
...were also spoiling for influence, and their targets were the five "Dalat generals," so nicknamed because of a period of arrest they had spent during 1964 in the mountain resort of Dalat. Released re cently, the five, according to the Young Turks, had been plotting with the rampant Buddhists. Fortnight ago the Turks demanded the retirement of all officers with 25 or more years of service-which would catch the Dalat group...
...service up to 14 weeks' pay for 20-year veterans. Elsewhere across the U.S., year-end fiscal cheer varies from the $10 Philadelphia Electric Co. gave its 9,300 nonexecutive workers to the average of $375 that Scio Pottery Co. of Scio, Ohio, handed 1,010 workers a fortnight ago. Chicago's prospering Abbott Laboratories, the pharmaceutical makers, paid a record $1,211,000 bonus to 4,000 nonexecutive employees last month-a 29% increase from 1963. Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., the nation's fifth largest commercial bank, is adding a bonus...
...least behave like a mother." What upset Ayub was that Fatima Jinnah looked so good in pants. The more she upbraided Ayub, the louder Pakistanis cheered the frail figure in her shalwar (baggy white silk trousers). By last week, with Pakistan's first presidential election only a fortnight away, opposition to Ayub had reached a pitch unequaled in his six years of autocratic rule...