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...part, of South Viet Nam, the one part of the country where the rainy season has just ended. Taking advantage of the partial vacuum created by the departure of the U.S. Marines, the North Vietnamese are creeping back into Quang Tri province, just below the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). Their repair of long unused road and river infiltration routes directly through the DMZ bodes ill for northern I Corps, always a vulnerable area and the scene of the war's bloodiest battles. Already Vietnamese have begun fleeing from the countryside into Danang, fearful that rural security will vanish when...
Five Years to Pay. Even so routine a surgical procedure as hernia repair can end up costing $1,000 in hospital and doctor bills. Charges totaling $1,200 for a routine delivery followed by a four-day stay in a maternity ward are not uncommon. Many such expenses can of course be avoided. Some elective operations can be delayed or even put off indefinitely, though at an eventual cost in health. Other conditions can be controlled, though not cured, by drugs and medication rather than surgery. The expenses of normal childbirth are predictable, and a family has nine months...
...lesson of the worst postwar money crisis is that the non-Communist world is running out of time in which to repair its financial system. The speculative explosion that tore through the banks and bourses two weeks ago demonstrated that permitting the system to lurch from one upheaval to another is no longer a workable policy. The world's financial and political leaders have two choices. They can unite on basic updating and reform of the rules that have promoted the free exchange of goods, tourists and money across national borders. Or they can retreat to competing nationalistic policies...
...eisht-week course that stresses military (358 hours) and motivational (143 hours) training. "It's the same Army," says one former Riley inmate, "but it's better people." At the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks, activities include a thriving Jaycees chapter, plus training in computer programming, color-TV repair and silk-screen processing...
...however, is no longer in a position to repair the monetary system by itself. Perhaps the most important lesson of the crisis is that financially, as well as politically and militarily, the days of unchallenged U.S. dominance of the non-Communist world are over. A natural corollary of that development is that the monetary structure should be redesigned to reflect the new reality, and some Europeans did indeed draw that conclusion last week. James Callaghan, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, for one, in effect called for a second Bretton Woods conference "to build a new system...