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They argue that for all the Allied success in search-and-kill forays against the Communists, victories over the enemy's main-force military units are like pushing water up the side of a bowl. The moment the mailed fist of U.S. power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations...
...Bavarian branch of the party, which had publicly endorsed Kiesinger the day before. Another was that he fitted the C.D.U.'s concept of a candidate by being not too Gaullist to alienate the party's Atlanticists and not too Catholic to offend the Protestants. But the main factor in Kiesinger's success was that, as a man of moderate, flexible views, he seemed to stand the best chance of forming a coalition with either the Socialists or the Free Democrats. Said he: "I hope for success in forming a solid-and I especially emphasize solid-coalition...
Reynolds (33%) soon, Reynolds has been moved to strike back with some new filters of its own. It launched Prince Albert pipe-tobacco cigarettes to match American's Half & Half filters, but dropped the brand as a failure. The main event is a new turn in the 40-year rivalry between Lucky Strikes and Reynolds' Camels, which are now the second-ranked nonfilters (after Pall Mall). Camel filters were introduced this year to compete with American's fast-growing Lucky filters, and a menthol version is ready to take on Lucky Strike Greens...
...earth circles the sun, it cuts through 1866 I's trail every November slicing into the thin stream of widely dispersed debris that produces the Leonid showers. In 1833, the earth's course took it through the middle of the main cluster of Leonids that follow closely behind the parent comet; it encountered a vastly larger number of meteoroids than usual. Just 33 years later, in November 1866, there was another fiery but less spectacular shower; the main cluster orbiting the sun once every 33¼ years was still three months away...
This November, a full four orbits after 1833, things should be different. The main swarm of Leonids should be back at the same point where they were intercepted by the earth 133 years ago. Astronomers who have predicted a substantial, if not spectacular shower, are hopeful that the earth will again pass directly through 1866 I's biggest clump of orbiting debris...