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...decision to withdraw some of their units came as a surprise to both the Army and the Marine divisions. The Marines occupy battle posts near Viet Nam's northern borders and have been involved in frequent clashes recently. The upper Mekong Delta, where the 9th is stationed, is a logical place from which to withdraw two brigades, since it is the only area where the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) already does the lion's share of the fighting. But the 9th is the only major U.S. unit in the heavily populated and strategically important delta, and one of the most...
...have they been able to win over the bulk of the 944,000 Arabs living on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Good intelligence and highly sophisticated, hard-hitting defense tactics stop most guerrilla activity on the perimeter of the Israeli heartland. Harsh retaliation by frequent air and artillery and occasional ground strikes has pushed fedayeen bases away from the 1967 borders. Sabotage and terrorism have dwindled in recent months. The Gaza Strip, that beehive of Palestine nationalism, is as quiet as it has been in years, most likely because of growing prosperity. On the West...
...first time in history, the summer school session became part of the regular session. The Administration declared the 12 week period equal to one semester. Graduations were frequent and informal. ROTC was a way of life for all who were able. For the Cliffes it was as bad as for anyone else. Pickings were slim in a class where everyone was already fighting or headed for war in the near future...
...only is the Pentagon coming in for rising criticism, but its civilian suppliers as well. Congress and the public are deeply concerned about the spiraling costs of new weapons systems and their frequent failure to perform up to expectations. High prices and technical flaws plague many major weapons systems, including the Army MBT-70 tank (prime contractor: General Motors), the Navy LHA assault-ship program (Litton) and the Air Force Short-Range Attack Missile (Boeing). Last week all the censure converged on two huge defense projects, the Air Force C-5A transport and the Army AH-56A Cheyenne helicopter. Both...
...voters. "When television first appeared, it had the greatest potential of anything man had ever invented," Gilligan said. "The British were able to realize this [with the BBC] but we were not." Newspapers were not much better. Gilligan did not think that televised distortion of the news was more frequent or more harmful than selective exclusion of news by newspapers. Editors, he said, usually have no qualms about blacking out certain events or stories that offend their biases. He challenged his audience to count up the columns of straight political news in a metropolitan daily. "There's very little hard...