Word: leadership
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...LEADERSHIP. ARVN officers traditionally represent the cream of Vietnamese society, a social caste preserved by stiff educational requirements for officer candidates. Thus, unlike the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong armies, ARVN offers little opportunity for skilled soldiers to rise up from the ranks. The result is that it suffers both in loss of potential talent and in its political image among the peasantry. Until recently, Abrams had made little dent at all in opening up the military establishment, but just last week he won a promise from the government to promote between 4,000 and 6,000 from the ranks...
...RELATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE. Because an army emulates its leadership, ARVN all too often runs roughshod over the people it is defending while in the field. The offenses range from chicken thievery to rape to the indiscriminate use of artillery. Corruption has long been a way of life, with tribute exacted all along the chain of command until the squeeze reaches the peasant at the bottom. Again, only since Tet can Abrams count much progress: 18 province chiefs and two corps commanders have been fired, several dozen officers arrested and tried for corruption...
...leadership of Communist Poland is gripped by a Byzantine intrigue in which hardly anything is really what it seems to be. The regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka, which appeared at first to be threatened mainly by the unrest of students and intellectuals, turns out to be more immediately challenged by an inner group that has used that unrest for its own ambitious purposes. Harder-lining than Gomulka, the men who make up this group have maneuvered to push their own people into power, used anti-Zionism as a club to purge many government functionaries and encouraged criticism of Gomulka...
...history," said the Toronto Star, "probably no man has entered the prime ministry so untried, so unfamiliar, so formless in his policies, yet so capable of capturing the imagination of so many Canadians." As he took over the leadership of the Liberal Party from Lester Pearson and prepared to succeed him as Canada's 15th Prime Minister next week, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, began slowly to give his policies a little more form-and himself something of a new image...
Trying to preserve at least a semblance of party solidarity, Trudeau asked most of the six Cabinet ministers who had run against him for the Liberal leadership to stay on and serve in his own Cabinet-at least until he calls general elections, probably in the fall. "I'm concerned with this problem of unity," he said. "After this kind of battle, there are always some scars left, not so much in terms of ideologies as in terms of personalities." By settling its own differences, Trudeau suggested, the party can help settle the broader differences within the country itself...