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...troops in uniform have so far not been harassed seriously by the East German Vopos, but the U.S. and France insist that even civilian-garbed personnel need show such identification only to Soviet officials, not their East German stand-ins. Britain, however, draws no such distinction in dress, permits mufti-clad members of its Berlin forces to flash their identity cards to the Vopos...
...Money in Mufti. With smart bidding and shrewd economy, Avco's pretax profit margin has more than doubled since 1957. from 3.4% to 7.6%. "But you can trim costs just so far," admits Wilson. For the future, Avco intends to boost earnings by swinging into more profitable civilian goods, altering its defense-to-civilian sales ratio from the present 60-40 to 50-50. To help achieve this target, it is banking on a rise in industrial use of such products as its turbine engines and heat-shielding devices. "In our forecasts for coming years," says Wilson, "profit increases...
...tried too far. In a last-minute attempt to shore up the lackadaisical Royal Army, the U.S. arranged for the Laotian government to request a U.S. military mission, and briskly agreed to supply one. In reality, this simply meant that the 200-man group of U.S. soldiers in mufti would put on military uniforms and acquire the right to serve in the field with combat units instead of confining themselves to providing basic training. The Laotians scarcely noticed the change of uniforms, being busy celebrating the Laotian New Year with much ceremonial splashing of water and chanting of prayers...
...army (of. the $34.2 million spent by the U.S. in Laos last year, only $590,750 went to agriculture, in a country where 90% of the people are farmers). The soldiers got shiny U.S. equipment and instruction as to its use from a band of U.S. soldiers in mufti euphemistically called the Programs Evaluation Office (since technically only the French, under Geneva's terms, were supposed to train Laotian soldiers...
...Stars. Heintges directs a U.S. outfit that amounts to a military advisory group in Laos. But it must operate in mufti. Reason: the 1954 Geneva agreement that ended the war in Indo-China...