Word: setups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Credits & Debits. U.S. military advisers still complain that poor communications and the highly centralized command setup of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem retard quick response to Viet Cong attacks. But slowly, the tactics taught by the U.S. advisers-most notably the use of helicopters-have begun to show results. The Viet Cong is now suffering nearly twice as many casualties as the South Vietnamese and the amount of captured Viet Cong equipment is rising. Viet Cong defections are on the increase, and Viet Cong terror tactics against the Montagnards (mountain tribesmen), who have been indifferent...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk was home from his ten-day swing through Western Europe. Apart from softening U.S. opposition to France's independent nuclear force and advancing the notion of absorbing it into a NATO setup, the main point of the trip was-once again-to clarify the U.S. position on Berlin...
...French can at best be delayed but not stopped in their efforts to assemble their own force de frappe-and that the West Germans someday may want to follow suit. Henceforth the U.S. will try not to prevent that force but to absorb it into a general West European setup...
Blondes & Fellowships. Scholarships explain much of the graduate binge. Not least is the "blonde scholarship"-a working wife. Now she is also likely to be studying in a marriage-by-degrees setup. Explains Marjorie McKintosh, a married Radcliffe senior who wants a Harvard Ph.D. in African history and anthropology: "I'll teach for a year while he goes to school. I'll go to school next year, and he'll be in school the year after...
...Professionals devoting their whole time to a game can reach a level of skill impossible to amateurs under the present setup...