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...comprehension of how perilous its military situation was. Thanks to a congressional reduction in military aid from a requested $1.6 billion to $700 million, Vietnamese troops in early 1975 were down to 200 M-16 rounds per man and ten 105-mm artillery rounds per month, the Rand report says. Fuel shortages in Saigon forced ambulances to be towed around four-in-a-row by trucks...
Abandonment is a word that echoes through the Rand study, and the Vietnamese argue that U.S. withdrawal left them not only short of supplies but psychologically helpless. As Barry Zorthian, former minister-counselor for information of the American embassy in Saigon, said after reading the Rand study: "It pulls together the inherent contradictions in our relationship, that love-hate. There was a Vietnamese way of doing things and an American way of doing things. And we did neither." One of the Vietnamese officials concluded more tersely: "To sum up, the war was lost from its inception...
...into early retirement a 63-year-old, say, who is slipping. In the past, an employer could close his eyes to that worker's failing performance in the knowledge that the worker would be gone in two years anyway. Now, says Frank D. Sweeten, vice president of Sperry Rand, "that two years becomes seven years, and we have to take a harder look at performance." Some employers would like to transfer to less demanding jobs those good workers who are slowing down, but are concerned that the employees will consider it a slight. James M. Seamon, vice president...
...year begins, moviemaking time has come again to Sperry Rand Corp. Up before the cameras steps Chairman Jean Paul Lyet, 61 . He is an accountant who rose out of a brass-knuckle neighborhood of North Philadelphia to become chief of a $4-billion-a-year multinational that sells products from rather simple gyrocompasses to complex Univac computers. And now, the boss is filming his annual report to 89,000 employees round the world...
...role in fostering racial injustice. Perhaps it is necessary to include a brief reminder to him and any others who believe the Engelhard issue is less than clear cut. Charles Engelhard parlayed an inheritance of twenty million dollars into a quarter of a billion fortune through his chairmanship of Rand Mines which controlled an estimated fifteen per cent of the South African gold mining industry during...