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...talents, he appointed her instead Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ugandan observers consider the promotion a practical rather than romantic measure. Not only does Big Daddy, a Moslem, already have four wives, but he is sadly short of Cabinet talent among his cronies, mostly former NCOS and privates. Before Elizabeth's appointment, he had flayed the Foreign Affairs Ministry as "the weakest and most inefficient I have ever seen." That was after the Ugandan Ambassador to France, Paulo Muwanga, allegedly had absconded to London, taking 500,000 French francs and 25 Ugandan passports "for his family...
Street Clinics. The new commander's biggest strides have been against drugs, to which he is applying lessons learned in Viet Nam. "The really difficult part," General Davison said recently, "was to get officers and NCOS to understand that we weren't dealing with dope fiends, but with young men who had a very real-life problem and who needed compassionate, humane concern and not punishment...
...most serious factor in the disciplinary breakdown, the report concludes, "is weakness in the chain of command, particularly at lower unit levels" where experienced officers and NCOs are not available and where those who are "may be dominated by the view that a mistake on their part spells career ruin. Within the chain of command, it is well known that communication has broken down." Attempts to bridge the gap through mixed councils of officers and enlisted men have "served to dilute or bypass" the chain of command...
...black Marine dozing on perimeter guard duty at Danang. The sergeant grabbed the sleeping grunt by the throat and told him: "If I were a V.C., you would be dead." That night the Marine lobbed a grenade into the sergeant's hootch, killing him and sending two other NCOs to hospitals in Japan...
...that barracks may have beer-vending machines. Any officer or soldier who raises a personnel question should get an answer from an authority on his base within 24 hours. Implicitly recognizing that longtime noncommissioned officers are most resistant to change, Westmoreland told commanders to make sure that their NCOs "stay ahead of changes in the country and society" and act "in keeping with the modern army philosophy...