Word: progressing
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Squeeze & Scare. By fairly handy margins, the opposition chipped away with one amendment after another. One proposed by Indiana's Ross Adair cut $72 million from the Alliance for Progress. Alabama's John Buchanan easily trimmed $25 million from the contingency fund, which is used to meet unforeseen emergencies. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mendel Rivers successfully moved to pare $60 million from military-assistance funds. An amendment sponsored by Illinois' Paul Findley bumped Poland from its cherished status as a favored nation in trade matters...
Skirting Dogma. Most of the ecumenical progress outlined during the Crete meeting was in areas of joint social and economic activity, unclouded by bitter historical disputes and fundamental differences of doctrine. Particularly emphasized was emergency relief, such as last year's collaboration between W.C.C. and Catholic organizations in aiding famine-threatened India. In this connection, Dr. Blake predicted that the Roman Catholic Church and the W.C.C. might begin to "spend money together" by the end of next year. The joint working group also called for more cooperation in missionary activities, Bible translations, and, citing the similarity of educational problems...
More than anything else, the current talk of stalemate in Viet Nam stems from the disparity in the progress of the two wars. In the big-unit war that is being fought largely by U.S. troops, success is real and measurable. In a long string of aggressive campaigns stretching back to the first major U.S. North Vietnamese battle in the la Drang Valley in 1965, American fighting men time and again bested Hanoi's best; they have prevented the Communists from getting a major offensive of their own under way. The combat toll in Red manpower, Hanoi's most precious...
...Cache of Insights. For all the heavy fighting and numerous Allied victories of the past two years, progress in wresting that green bastion away from the Viet Cong has been painfully slow ?and some of that progress has recently been undone by the necessity of freeing U.S. Marines from the day-today chores of pacification so that they can face North Vietnamese regulars newly active in the DMZ. The South Vietnamese government's guess?and it is admittedly only that?is that 60% of the national population is now "under government control," up from a little more than...
...same time, Hanoi now talks constantly of a war of decades, a war that will last until the U.S. loses patience with lack of tangible progress, with victories measured in mere numbers of enemy dead, with big-unit operations that leave unaltered the balance of control between the government and the Viet Cong in rural hamlets...