Word: gain
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Komer estimates that about 55% of South Viet Nam's population has been brought under the government's wing, a "modest gain" of about 5% in the first eight months of 1966. Accentuating the positive, he notes a rapid increase to 28,539 workers in the key Revolutionary Development Cadre program, describing the 59-man teams sent into the countryside as "a dagger pointed at the Viet Cong's heart" (though an official Vietnamese assessment in preparation tells another story-of faulty recruiting, bad training, improper use of workers and ill-advised psychology). Komer notes proudly that...
...white supremacist regime seized in dependence last year only to forestall British attempts to give the land's over whelming African majority a hand in running the government. Therefore, agree all members of the Common wealth, the only way for Rhodesian blacks to gain true independence is for Britain to regain control...
Citing a study by Dr. Jack Leon Paradise of the Bellaire (Ohio) Clinic, the B.M.J. reports that "the incidence of colic was unrelated to social class, the mother's age, the birth order, the child's sex, the weight gain, the type of feeding, a history of allergic disease or maternal emotional factors." All of which leaves colic as mysterious as ever...
Wilson managed to prevent a walkout, largely because most African Commonwealth members had nothing to gain-and too many economic benefits to lose-by leaving. He offered no new tactics against Rhodesia, clung instead to the hope that his economic boycott would eventually bring Smith down...
Still, there is plenty to think about in The Territorial Imperative, for the search for first causes is an exhilarating adventure. Ardrey can serve as a valuable if treacherous bridge for the stimulated reader who wants to gain more reliable anthropological ground. And if serious anthropologists persist in complaining that Ardrey is trespassing on their territory, let them consider the wolf...