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Swiftly the Israelis moved in. During a two-minute fight, four MPs and a Lebanese gendarme were killed and five of the seven Syrians captured. They proved a high-level bag: a brigadier general and two colonels from the army general staff and two air force intelligence officers, plus a Lebanese captain acting as their guide. They were flown off in helicopters for interrogation, and Israel said that they would be treated as prisoners of war. There were hints that they might be offered in exchange for three Israeli flyers held since 1970 as prisoners in Syria...
Bright, blue-eyed Ben Barnes, 34, was the most astonishing casualty. Once marked as presidential timber by Lyndon Baines Johnson, and a "golden boy" protégé of Treasury Secretary John Connally, Barnes nonetheless was hurt by revelations of high-level wheeling and dealing in the state capital. The most sensational was the implication of Governor Smith and former Texas House Speaker Gus Mutscher, among others, in a stock-fraud case (TIME, Feb. 15, 1971). Barnes was not directly involved, but after subsequent investigations exposed flagrant cases of nepotism (one legislator had five relatives on various payrolls) and misuse...
...policy-making process and if there is a fusion between analyst and decision-maker, the probability is that the public will accept it with eagerness. There are four reasons" (1) Elected officials remain responsible for their actions in their own minds and the minds of the public. A high-level official, being human, has no desire to cede authority to anyone else...
Precisely what the two men agreed on is still secret, but evidently it was enough to encourage the White House to resume the high-level secret talks and refrain from bombing Hanoi and Haiphong for a time. But not enough to discourage Moscow from doubling arms shipments through Haiphong...
...entire day, a seemingly endless convoy of trucks poured into the town, carrying troops from the 21st Division, normally stationed deep in the Mekong Delta. Everyone seemed confident, except for the American helicopter crews waiting to carry some high-level U.S. military observers to the battlefront. "They'll never win this war as long as the Vietnamese let those guys fly choppers," said one Army captain, gesturing toward the dozing crew of a ramshackle Vietnamese Air Force "Huey." "These guys can't fight and won't fight. You'll never catch them in the air after...