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...carry out a classic role in counterinsurgency as developed by the British in Malaya: Resource Control. In plain terms, their function is to deny guerrillas food, medicine and supplies. Pham Van Lieu, a crack former marine commando, was brought in to restore discipline and esprit and to try to mend fences with the regular military. The number of canh sat was doubled from 22,000 to the present 53,000, will total 72,000 by 1967-many of them trained by 144 U.S. policemen imported by AID's Public Safety Division. Eventually, the number may grow...
Diamond fell on his right wrist in the last five minutes of the loss to Dartmouth, and doctors predict that it will take six weeks to mend...
...averts a worse disaster when he rams his locomotive through a stop signal. Demoted to a yard job that destroys the fag end of his pride, Andrea scabs during a strike, estranging himself from friends and family. Later, he suffers a heart attack and lives just long enough to mend the ties that bind, in a gay, tearful Christmas reunion at home...
Emphasizing the internal instability that sabotaged the Goldwater forces, Shaddeg lambastes speechwriters who toyed with ideas and ignored the counsel of experienced politicians. Goldwater did nothing to mend the flaws in his organization. The Republican nominee kept silent, supplying neither the control nor the inspiration that could have soldered together the splitting elements which supported him. Shaddeg leaves the impression that Goldwater would have obediently read anything his speechwriters handed him-indicating that he possessed a powerful general credo but nothing concrete on which to built a winning campaign...
...Force Secretary Harold Brown last week inherited a problem that has caused the Air Force considerable embarrassment. One of Brown's first tasks was to meet with outgoing Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert and 13 distinguished businessmen and educators-trustees all of the embattled Aerospace Corp. Subject: how to mend the firm's badly shredded reputation. Five years ago, convinced that no private corporation could capably handle the overall systems engineering and technical direction of its missile-development program, the Air Force set up California-based Aerospace as a Government-financed, nonprofit corporation. Some of the things that went...