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Kissinger has a broad range of experience in international relations and is considered a specialist in European security and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Raising the Flag. While Communist main forces lie low, the allies are pushing the war as hard as possible. Bombing of supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos has increased since the bombing halt over North Viet Nam. Hundreds of ground patrols stab out daily to find and fix Communist forces and bring them to battle. The allied pacification effort has been accelerated, with the aim of hoisting as many yellow-and-red South Vietnamese flags as possible before any cease-fire might freeze territorial claims. Saigon wants to add no fewer than 1,000 hamlets...
...area of concern is the region around Danang, the country's second-largest city and the hub of I Corps. Three times in six days last week, Communist gunners raked allied base complexes in Danang with rocket and mortar fire. The South Vietnamese 51st Regiment tangled with a North Vietnamese unit twelve miles south of the city and reported killing 253. In Danang itself, a rash of terrorist grenadings resulted in a one-day, 24-hour curfew. Yet the remainder of I Corps, not long ago the main theater of fighting, appears unaffected. Allied intelligence estimates that the Communists...
...ceasefire. They would like more time to consolidate Saigon's hold on the countryside, and they are convinced that Hanoi will not stick to its de-escalation understanding with the U.S. Last week the South Vietnamese commander of I Corps, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, charged that the North Vietnamese were moving through the DMZ in company-sized units. Despite 21 significant confirmed violations of the buffer zone, U.S. officers saw no pattern of abuse there and could locate no major military threat. At the same time, Saigon claimed that, despite the understanding that cities should...
...Five years later, the commission rejected their petition on the ground that the northern combine, involving some of the profit-starved railroad industry's most prosperous carriers, would hurt competition. In particular, the commission expressed the fear that the merged companies would draw traffic away from the Chicago & North Western and the Milwaukee Road. Late last year, the commission reversed itself after the northern lines promised to give valuable track rights to the Milwaukee and mollified labor by agreeing to eliminate 4,511 excess employees by attrition over several years rather than dismissal. The chief executives of the carriers...