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...nearly $700 million. It is the largest expansion of Washington's commitment in Viet Nam since the U.S.'s first big buildup there in 1962 under President Kennedy. And it represents a reversal of policy for the U.S. Government. Only ten months ago, shortly before the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was talking of bringing most American training troops home from Viet Nam by the end of 1965. Now there is no more talk of being out by 1965-or any other year in the foreseeable future. Of McNamara's statement...
...said, mean he condoned extremist groups that worked toward "the overthrow of the Government" and, in fact, "did not apply to political philosophy at all." Insisted Goldwater: "It's the plainest English I ever used. I just think some people can't read the English language, and I feel sorry for them when they can't see the fences around that sentence...
...Beware of raising armies," Tsiranana warned, "for they can overthrow us. Beware of visiting African delegations that come to enjoy your hospitality and praise you to your face, but stir up insurrection behind your back." To the nervous titters of such practitioners of insurrection as Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, he took a cut at that African holy of holies, nonalignment. "We all say we are neutral, but we all favor anybody who helps us," Tsiranana said. "If you ask me the truth, I'll say mais oui, I am allied...
...announced plans for the year: 1) complete a mural at Chapultepec castle, the national museum, portraying the Mexican Revolution; 2) complete another for the national theatrical artists' union, and 3) go to Havana to start work on a project dedicated to the Castro rebels who died in the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's regime...
...Canada, armed forces unification, a federal student aid program, and a twelve-mile fishing limit. In Ottawa's press gallery, newsmen long endeared to Pearson are starting to make the same acid wisecracks they once leveled at Diefenbaker ("Well, fellows, we've got a government to overthrow"). Wrote Diefenbaker Biographer Peter Newman (Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years) in the current issue of Maclean's magazine: "Although there have been almost none of the brass-band disasters of the Diefenbaker years, the domestic policies of the Liberals have been a grey, quiet failure...