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This new group, caled the Mark 11 new towns, must overcome two main problems. According to the New Towns Act, the Ministry can establish public corporations "to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of land and other property, to carry out any business or undertaking in or for the purpose of the new town." The breadth of the corporational mandate usually alienates local politicians. They resent the intrusion of highly educated administrators and architects into their districts. And since the corporation must consult local authorities at each planning stage, fierce fights often occur. For example at Hemel Hempstead the local residents...
...second main problem facing Mark 11 towns is the establishment of a viable human community. Since the corporations have the power to put up houses and factories, but not social facilities, new towns have tended to be social wastelands in their early stages. Shops, cinemas, and pubs do not want to move in until the population has reached 20,000. Up to that time, new town inhabitants must travel long distances by infrequent transportation to enjoy the social attractions they were used to in London, Liverpool, or Birmingham...
...Battlefields of the Future. The MBT-70 (for Main Battle Tank of the 1970s), a 50-ton monster (approximate cost: $600,000) jointly designed and built by West Germany and the U.S., is touted to be the ultimate in the next generation of heavy tanks. It can dash 400 miles at a top speed of 42 m.p.h. without refueling (v. 100 miles and 18 m.p.h. by the Panzer IVs of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps). It can cross rivers simply by driving underwater, locate targets in the night with infra-red and starlight viewfinders, and pinpoint their range with...
...Determined to avoid main-force encounters with U.S. troops in South Viet Nam except in the northernmost I Corps, which can be supplied directly across the Demilitarized Zone...
Confrontation of Sorts. Giap's main claim to fame is that he led the forces that defeated the French at Dienbienphu, but he is well aware that he is up against a very different enemy now. Even as his speech was beamed southward by Hanoi, the North Vietnamese homeland felt the full impact of U.S. airpower. The bombing of the North has become so intense in the days before the monsoon hits in full force that the number of prohibited targets in North Viet Nam has been falling almost as fast as the torrents of bombs...