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...country until a solution satisfactory to the Catholics, city-dwellers, and others who have been America's allies is reached. The guerrillas could not threaten the cities and friendly provincial areas because guerrilla warfare requires a friendly environment. The United States could promise to retaliate for any frontal assault on the cities...
Biology: Malfunctioning of frontal lobese...
...assistance" is to be allocated to help maintain economic stability in the countries that the U.S. is aiding militarily; of that amount, 88% would go to South Viet Nam, Laos, Korea and Jordan. More than $500 million of the military and supporting assistance would be spent "to meet the frontal attack in Viet Nam and Laos," but President Johnson also asked for stand-by authorization for additional money for Viet Nam "only in case we should need more funds to protect our interests there...
...uses its emergency throttle sparingly. Linsenmair and Jander watched Stenodus beetles turning and weaving like PT boats, as if to catch their enemies squarely in their wakes. Like most weapons, though, the Stenodus' go power can be outmaneuvered: the detergent works only astern, and water striders on frontal-attack patterns made kills every time...
When Robert E. Lee launched 15,000 Confederates against a firmly entrenched Union Army of several times that number at Gettysburg, was he being exceptionally courageous? Or exceptionally foolhardy? Or exceptionally bullheaded (his generals to a man had advised him against a frontal assault)? None of these, according to Psychologist Norman Kiell, an assistant professor at New York's Brooklyn College. He was responding instead to what one study of group psychology called "the early ego identifications of childhood" that exist between "the group and the group leader...