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Simple Reason. Diem's intransigence has dismayed U.S. officials, who fear that mounting Buddhist discontent can only hinder the war effort against the Viet Cong, just when it is beginning to go well. Over the past year, government forces and their 14,000 U.S. military "advisers" have vastly increased their mobility and striking power against the Red guerrillas. More than 7,000 "strategic hamlets" have been built, now protect 8,000,000 Vietnamese from Viet Cong raids...
...gunnery shrieked, whirled, moaned, whistled and wrathfully fluttered over our ground . . . Through the midst of the storm of screaming and exploding shells, an ambulance, driven by its frenzied conductor at full speed, presented to all of us the marvellous spectacle of a horse going rapidly on three legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock . . ." How You Are Envied. "Then there was a lull, and we knew that the rebel infantry was charging. And splendidly they did this work-the highest and severest test of the stuff that soldiers are made of. Hill's division...
...would turn out to be. Considering the continuing U.S. deficit in international payments, there could conceivably be a benefit in having at least a few U.S. dollars turned back at the border. Yet that effect might be offset by the new sales tax on building materials, which could seriously hinder U.S. export sales to Canada...
...remove him from office. His overthrow would make him appear as a martyr in the fight against white imperialism, and his popularity among the 90 per cent Negro population would increase. Martyring Duvalier would at once heighten Haitian hostility to the United States and at the same time hinder, if not actually cripple, any attempts at internal reform...
...clause which reads: "Requests for unpublished information from foreign nations may be filled, but, when appropriate, information will be requested in return." Thus Harvard is no longer required to request equally valuable information from Soviet bloc nations, but Wiggins admits that "the ambiguity of the phrase could still hinder exchanges of information between the accelerator and foreign scientists...