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Under the Pentagon scheme, seven special task forces of Regular Army troops - more than 15,000 men - have been assigned as an elite service to cope with urban disruption. The riot forces will be dispatched only if the Na tional Guard - which has been undergoing special riot training since its woefully inept performances in Newark and Detroit last summer - cannot...
Thus, in the event of racial violence in the cities, it will ultimately be the na ion's most thoroughly integrated institution - the Army - that will be called upon to establish order...
...example, Lipset claims that the leftish, militant Students for a Democratic Society have only 7,000 members among the na tion's 6.5 million university students. By contrast, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans have a combined enrollment of nearly 250,000. Lipset also believes that on both the left and right, far more students were activists in the 1930s than are so today...
...city hall has been the political graveyard of virtually every man who presided there. Its present landlord may be the exception. On the eve of his second anniversary in office, John Vliet Lindsay is still threshing out the megaproblems of megalopolis, yet refuses to sink below the horizon of na tional politics. His views on the Republican presidential competition make headlines. Fortnight ago, he published his first book, Journey into Politics. Last week, after appearing on a network television program, he starred in the first of a weekly TV series of his own. Then he hopped to Los Angeles, where...
...then to head the State Department's new Policy Planning Staff, he succeeded in influencing the shape of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the designs for rebuilding Japan's economy. But then the pendulum began swinging too far the other way. From "the clumsy naïveté" of its wartime cozying-up to Moscow, Washington moved to the opposite extreme and adopted an unbending, monolithic attitude toward the Communist countries. Kennan believes that U.S. policy has been "bedeviled" for two decades by this approach...