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Days or Weeks. That point could hardly have been lost on Johnson, who has repeatedly emphasized the damage to U.S. prestige that would result from a U.S. withdrawal in Viet Nam. If diplomacy fails to settle the Arab-Israeli impasse, and if the other seagoing nations continue to shrink from the idea of backing their principles with some punch, the U.S. and Britain may have to act on their own. Otherwise, Israel surely will move to break the blockade-not in a matter of months or years but, as Eban warned, days or weeks. And once Israel moves, as Harold...
This time the Defense Department shied away from its politically unpopular proposal to merge federal Reserve and the state-run Guard. Instead, it recommended outright elimination of 15 understrength Guard divisions, four Reserve brigades and many other smaller units. Total authorized personnel would shrink by only 38,500-to 640,000-because surviving combat units would be reinforced to permit their deployment within eight weeks of call-up and some new outfits would be formed. All combat components would be in the Guard, which would have eight divisions and 18 brigades on quick-response status. The active Reserve would consist...
...autos, machinery, ceramics, cameras and hats-most industrial countries agreed to slash their tariffs by the full 50% that Kennedy originally sought. As a result, the average tariff wall around U.S., British and Canadian imports will fall from today's 18% to about 10%. Common Market levies will shrink by one-third from their present 13.2%, and those imposed by such countries as Switzerland and Sweden will drop from 8% to the merely nuisance level...
...possible for Americans and Japanese and Russians, without even leaving their homes, to watch a soccer game in London while it is being played. Moving information at the speed of light has reversed the trend toward expansion of the world, and McLuhan suggests that the world will continue to shrink until we all live in a village again, a single, global village...
...space-faring nation," he says proudly. "This is a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world. The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. And the revelations of cosmography should shrink our egos down to size...