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Enemy Attacks. As an indication of the improving situation, Nixon noted that North Vietnamese infiltration is less than 20% of what it was a year ago. But American military experts warned that infiltration, which has declined in the past, can suddenly increase. At present, there are unsettling reconnaissance reports that Communist engineers are repairing and widening the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and there are indications that Hanoi is preparing to put more troops in the pipeline to South Viet...
...camp for defectors tried to toss a grenade at the South Vietnamese Cabinet Minister who heads the "open arms" program for defectors, but a genuine defector managed to get the grenade away from the two before it could explode. Captured enemy documents indicate that the Communists at present are in the process of preparing to launch the final phase of their war plan. That phase is not so much an "offensive"-the weakened Communist forces no longer use the word-as a series of "high points" or sporadic attacks designed to make the American people so weary...
Once the U.S. and Soviets arrive at a joint proposal, they will present it to France and Britain. But even if the Big Four can finally reach accord on a peace plan, there is no guarantee that either the Arabs or the Israelis will accept...
...over the way in which U.S. aid programs have all too often been "distorted to serve a variety of purposes in the U.S. having nothing to do with the aspirations and interests of its neighbors." Rockefeller feels that the U.S. should press for increased trade within the hemisphere. Doubling present volume by 1976 would be "realistic" but attainable only by revising U.S. quotas and tariffs on such Latin American exports as coffee, sugar and meat. Equally important is the easing of cumbersome aid restrictions. Along with loosing "tied" aid dollars, a step already ordered by Nixon, the U.S. should seek...
...present, the so-called solutions are grim and inadequate if not absurd. Many big-city slum schools have installed special lighting, hidden microphones, and burglar-alarm systems. New York City policemen often patrol their beats inside the schools. Yet exporting the custodial techniques of Sing Sing to the schools hardly creates authentic discipline, much less an atmosphere conducive to learning...