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...their traditional authority figure. In the past decade, the Viet Cong have systematically wiped out some 15,000 local offi cials?disposing of the worst as well as the best. Killing the best undermines Saigon capacity to govern; killing the worst wins the villagers' gratitude. The result not only makes for mediocrity among those remaining, but serves as a sharp warning to them not to prosecute their tasks too diligently...
Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Budget Director Charles Schultze and Council of Economic Advisers Chair man Gardner Ackley, who prepared the memo, are by no means the only offi cials to believe that the President should make up his mind on the tax issue as soon as possible...
...Game. For a scholar and administrator, Rorimer revealed an unexpected flair for showmanship and a love for cloak-&-dagger art sleuthing. During World War II, he was decorated for ferreting out the caches where the Nazis had hidden their art loot, proudly boasted that he was the first Allied offi cer to enter the Louvre upon the liberation of Paris. As director of the Met, he relished prowling galleries for finds, made auction history when he bought Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for a record $2,300,000 with a wink. Last March he went...
...coming out of the bloody hills," said one stunned American offi cer. They were indeed...
...Russian convoy grew and grew and grew. At first there were only three small four-wheeled armored personnel carriers. Then the small APCs were replaced by three larger six-wheeled armored cars. Then the Russians suggested that they might want to add a fourth. "What next?" groaned U.S. offi cials in Washington and Berlin. "Tanks?" The U.S. last week decided to put an end to the daily 2. 2 -mile circus. To the Russians went a curt announcement: as of midnight next day, there would be no more junketing through the U.S. sector to the war memorial. Instead, the Communists...