Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson has asked Congress to cut federal outlays for National Defense Education Act loans by $40 million next year and eventually "phase out" the entire program. From any point of view but his own, the President's plan is an outright mistake...
...Vietnamese forces in selected areas. Next, the South Vietnamese army will move in and mop up what is left of the enemy. At that point, exit the army and enter the region's own police force and popular forces, ready to defend themselves. A key to making this phase work will be the white-uniformed national police force ("the white mice") under Colonel Pham Van Lieu, who are already showing promise of developing into an effective countrywide law-enforcement agency. As one American says: "If the mayor of Cedar Rapids has a crime problem, he calls the cops...
...activity when there is no substance of progress in the war," he wrote. "But it would be serious to underestimate the President or believe that his moves have been wholly histrionic. There is a logic to his latest move, the logic of adding political warfare as a third phase of the American effort, to fill out the triangle whose other two sides are formed by the military operations and the diplomatic operations...
When he gets the sort of man he wants, the chief does not waste him. "It's ridiculous to spend money on an above-average person," says he, "and then admit that he cannot do every phase of police work." When a crime is committed in Berkeley, the beat cop directs all phases of investigation. Backup detectives offer assistance and expertise, but the case is the patrolman's responsibility all the way through the trial. They do the job so well that Judge
...military phase of the program, there will be a continued shift away from grants and an increased effort to enable countries to make outright purchases of U.S. equipment. The changes are far more basic on the economic side. Agricultural aid, for instance, would go up more than one-third, to nearly $500 million, at the expense of grandiose construction schemes. More emphasis will be placed on financing development projects through international agencies such as the World Bank...