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...underdeveloped countries-plus most of a Marine division and six Army brigades dispersed from Alaska to the Canal Zone. Many of the men now en route to Viet Nam have been there before, and some have not even enjoyed the usual two-year respite between combat tours. To prevent the thin green line from getting thinner still, the Administration may well have to put major Reserve ground components on active-duty status for the first time since the Berlin crisis of 1961. These forces would not necessarily be sent to Viet Nam, but would serve as a ready back...
After the Johnson supporters' first rush for the exit, however, 19 other members who voted against the McCarthy endorsement announced that they will remain in the A.D.A. to try to prevent the organization's collapse. After all, the organization may wind up backing Johnson against the Republican candidate after the party conventions this summer...
...openly announced that the U.S. supported Plaza, confident that Plaza had the votes wrapped up in the OAS Council. Seeing a good issue, Panama's Ambassador Eduardo Ritter Aislan immediately lashed out at Yanqui pressure, rallied support for his own candidacy and on the first ballot managed to prevent Plaza from getting the 15-vote majority that he needed for election. When the voting was still deadlocked after three more ballots, the Council declared an eleven-week "cooling-off" period. In the end, Ritter defeated himself by calling a special session of the OAS Council and claiming that...
...gained toward alleviating the conflicts and pressures which produced last Fall's bitter confrontation. The single most constructive result of the Mallinckrodt demonstration was the creation of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council. Here was a Committee which could bridge the apparent gaps between students, Faculty, and the administration, and prevent a recurrence of this unhappy chapter in Harvard's history...
...next king. His father, he insists, is the rightful king, and he will never take his place as long as Don Juan is alive. And then, of course, there is the matter of whether anyone will be king. There is nothing in Spain's supposedly monarchial constitution to prevent Franco-or the administrators of the government he leaves behind-from naming a permanent regent instead of a king...