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...Army in Viet Nam. But exactly how bad is the situation in the ranks? According to an Army study, there may well exist such a profound crisis of discipline that the Army's ability to function is in doubt. So says an unusually revealing Army memorandum surveying military discipline in the entire Pacific Command that is currently being circulated clown to the battalion level...
...navigable waterways without first obtaining permits. To get permits, they would have to comply with stiff guidelines on dumping which were to be set down by the Environmental Protection Agency. Last week the EPA threw in the sponge; there will be no national guidelines. Instead, said a terse EPA memorandum, regional officials will set their own standards...
...Israelis, who have never seen such a memorandum, much less agreed to such terms, were furious. Quickly, the State Department explained that the memo was not official. What had happened, it said, was that Donald Bergus, Washington's provisional representative in Cairo, had offered Riad his own "informal and personal" suggestion for a Suez plan. "He certainly stepped off the reservation," said one official, "but we're not going to disown him. He's a capable man with excellent contacts...
...Bogus Memorandum. Publicly, Israel accepted the explanation; privately, its diplomats spoke scornfully of the "Bogus Memorandum." Their skepticism was well founded. It seemed most unlikely that Bergus, 51, who has spent more than 25 years on Middle East matters and served ably since 1967 in his present sensitive post, would have ignored Rogers' directive. A possible explanation is that Bergus was sending up trial balloons at the behest of the State Department. That seems especially likely in view of the fact that the U.S. is tinkering with a proposal-oral -much like Bergus' for solving the Suez impasse...
...most surprising specific disclosures of the Times's papers include: WAR AIMS. Both publicly and in a National Security memorandum in March 1964, President Johnson insisted that the central U.S. aim was to secure...