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...reason has to do partly with the fatigue of 20 years of war, partly with French colonial policy, which promoted few Vietnamese to officer rank, and partly with the flimsy framework of new nationhood. Even after the French left, there was a shortage of nearly everything needed for a good army: buildings, bases, firing ranges, leadership, esprit. Loyalties continued to go to family rather than the new nation...
...flurry of long-distance telephone conferences, however, and heavy diplomatic pressure from the West, they were persuaded that the backward, semiarid North would be hard put to go it alone without the natural resources of the South and the skills of the Southerners. Agreeing to one more try at nationhood, they named a 31-year-old lieutenant colonel, Yakubu Gowon, as Nigeria's new supreme commander...
Died. General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, 79, Canada's foremost soldier, respected scientist and diplomat; of a heart attack; in Montebello, Que. McNaughton's intense belief in independent Canadian nationhood overlaid everything he did, whether serving as president of his country's National Research Council (1935-39), or sitting as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1946). But Canadians know him best as the World War II commander of Canadian troops in Europe, who bitterly disputed Allied plans to commit his men piecemeal, arguing that his divisions should form a single force "pointed at the heart...
...weeks in the arts of "self-defense, self-help and self-government" at seaside Vung Tau. Skilled in everything from using a grenade launcher to digging a well and administering first aid, they are Saigon's-and the U.S.'s -first wave of shock troops in elemental nationhood. Already, 5,000 more cadremen are in training; by the end of the year hopefully 15,000 will be in the field. Some will be old hands at pacification retrained to bring new skill to their job. They are the manpower legacy of previous programs, from President Diem...
...embarks on nationhood, Guyana has plenty going for it: rich bauxite deposits, extensive timberlands, and an excellent climate for rice and sugar cane. But it may have even more going against it. Fully two-thirds of the country's 83,000-sq.-mi. land area is being contested by its neighbors, Venezuela and Dutch Surinam. It has a chronic and crippling lack of skilled manpower and cash. It has critical unemployment, now more than 20%. It also has Cheddi Jagan. As a rabble-rousing Premier between 1961 and 1964, Jagan not only wrecked the colony's economy...