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...Thuot. That came as a complete surprise to Saigon and led President Thieu to his hasty decision to withdraw his forces from the Central Highlands. Dung calls Thieu's decision a "grave strategic mistake." Thereafter, he says, Hanoi's main problem was moving fast enough to maintain the military initiative. For example, the Communists sent a commander from Hanoi to take charge of the battle for Danang on March 26. Much to Hanoi's astonishment, the city fell only three days later-without a fight...
Through wife capture and polygamy, aggressive Yãnomamõ males produce the most children. Says Chagnon: "What the Yãnomamõ are doing makes a good deal of sense if you view it as a strategy to maintain reproductive fitness." The winners in Yãnomamõ wars -the largest villages-have the highest birth rates and the most inbreeding...
Farmers angrily maintain that state officials have tried to cover up the scandal, which is already being referred to as Cattlegate. Gerald Woltjer, 39, who has lost 600 cows because of PBB contamination during the past two years, feels that the state agriculture department was indifferent to early reports about PBB poisoning. Other farmers are irate over the department's decision to allow farm products with currently allowable PBB levels to be sold. Says Alvin Green, 58, of Chase, who shot and buried 150 cows last November: "I don't think it's right to put this...
...represent an extension of Soviet domination into Western Europe; in fact, by legitimating diversity within European Communism, it would increase the ability of Eastern European countries to explore alternative socialist models to that of the Soviet Union. Paradoxically, continued American intransigence will only weaken the PCI's ability to maintain its distance from Moscow by undermining its contention that there is a "third way" between East and West. American policy makers should abandon their cold war vision of a monolithic international Communist movement, and resolutely refrain from interfering with Italian moves toward the historic compromise...
...There is a danger of Rosovsky losing touch and becoming isolated" if he does not maintain close contact with the CHUL, Pipkin said...