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Despite the new title, Loeb does not consider himself merely a business journalist. "Our section isn't only about dollars and cents," he says. "It's about ideas, individuals, trends. The line between economics and other areas of American life has become much fuzzier. Is affirmative action, for example, a political, social or economic issue? The answer, of course, is that it is all three, and more. Covering these kinds of stories gives us a very eclectic section each week...
What was it with these people? They were all intelligent, potentially competent, as honest as the next guy. They had probably all entered Government service with enthusiasm and dedication. But somewhere along the line they had all settled for far less than expected-and some had virtually embraced incompetence. The odd thing was that most took no joy in their malfeasance. A few delighted in petty corruption, but most were frustrated and dissatisfied. They felt that theirs was the only rational course open, that the system demanded incompetence...
...observer: "It's like hearing a couple of cats squawling in the middle of the night ?they're making a helluva racket, but you don't know if they are fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that the front-line units of China's huge, 3% million-man land army and those of Viet Nam's leaner but highly honed 615,000 troops were not embracing. At dawn on Saturday, Feb. 17, Chinese forces, massed more than 300,000 strong north of Viet Nam in Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces, loosed...
Abundantly forewarned, the Vietnamese let regional border forces and local village militia take the brunt of the initial attack. An estimated three to five regular divisions (at least 30,000 troops) were held back. They were apparently arrayed in a crescent-shaped defense line that stretched from Yen Bai on the Red River in the west to Quang Yen on the east coast. Their mission: to defend the coastal plain surrounding Hanoi and Haiphong, and wait for the Chinese to show their hand...
...Radcliffe program is going to double, bringing the program in line with the enrollment figures," Lawrence E. Maguire, director of student employment, said yesterday...