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...promised to furnish the Saigon government. ADVISORY PERSONNEL, now numbering nearly 80,000, will be reduced by about half. Most of the cuts will be made at the lower command levels; instead of being assigned to every ARVN battalion, U.S. advisers will no longer operate below the regiment or brigade level. Wherever possible, major generals will be replaced by brigadier generals, brigadiers by colonels. Their staffs will be reduced accordingly. As South Vietnamese commanders become more confident, the advisers' role will also change, and U.S. personnel attached to South Vietnamese units will become liaison officers coordinating...
...votes has been eliminated. A nonpartisan commission has been appointed to study Londonderry's public housing, long allocated on the basis of political patronage. The "B-specials," an almost exclusively Protestant force of part-time cops, have been disarmed. They will eventually be replaced by an "Ulster Defense Regiment" for which Catholic recruits will be sought-though probably with scant success...
...century, is a splendid father image-tall, shambling and folksy. Palme (pronounced Pal-muh), who is Erlander's protégé, is something else. The son of a wealthy, conservative Stockholm family, he was educated in an exclusive prep school, served two years in a cavalry regiment, and in 1947-48 spent what he recalls as "an absolutely wonderful year" at Ohio's Kenyon College, majoring in political science and economics and earning a bachelor's degree...
...Viet Cong units, which had previously controlled the area. Now, responsibility rests with the ARVN 7th Division, which is working hard to shuck its former reputation as the "Search and Avoid Division." "Ever since your 9th Division left," Colonel Tran Tien Khang, commander of the division's 11th Regiment, said last week, "we have had to work very hard. Before, every man averaged 20 days a month on operations; now, they average 28. This means that men are on patrol, on search missions or night ambushes, almost every day." So far, there has been little combat-in keeping with...
Died. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 85, British novelist whose 19 books provided an acerbic commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...