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...then, 75,000 American servicemen already were present in South Viet Nam or pledged to go. The President promised 50,000 more by the end of this year, and the promise was soon outstripped by the deed. The 50,000 were on the scene by mid-September-and they just kept coming. Today the total is 145,000, and it will pass 200,000 by New Year's Day. Target by next summer...
...Hard-core poverty statistics are misleading, since the accepted criteria (less than $4,000 a year for a family or $2,000 for an individual) classify as poor many elements of the population, notably students, servicemen and many small farmers, who live reasonably well. Many of those who are considered "impoverished" today are clothed, housed, fed, educated and entertained (TV in 93% of U.S. homes); hunger and exposure have "statistically disappeared" as causes of death...
...Cameron Highlanders, who still wears his tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal I. R. Maravunaqaraidakuwaqa), they stripped down to palm skirts and battle paint to demonstrate island war dances called mekes...
...fortnight ago, the number of U.S. servicemen in South Viet Nam soared past the 100,000 mark. Last week another 7,500 "combat-support and combat-support service personnel" landed from two troopships, bringing the total to nearly 108,000-a fourth of them front-line marines and infantrymen. And at week's end the 15,800 men and 424 helicopters and planes of the Army's 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division began to disembark at Qui Nhon...
...across town, four other officers, who had supported the loyalist junta of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barrera, added their names with equal severity. Thus, without fanfare or even much reconciliation, ended the bloody civil war that began April 24, took the lives of 3,000 Dominicans and 31 U.S. servicemen, and involved the U.S. and other OAS nations in a major military operation...