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...generally had happy, independent offspring. Flo, a perfectly hideous old chimp who for reasons beyond human imagination made all the males go ape at mating season, was a model mother when the study began. She played with her babies continually, picked them up at the first whimper, followed every slap with a squeeze and cleverly distracted her child when she saw misbehavior in the making; but as she grew older she became grandmotherly and spoiled one little chimp rotten. As he approached maturity, he was still a screaming ninny...
...Slap in the Face. The U.S. command has tried with only limited success to protect Pace and similar bases strung along the Cambodian border by means of B-52 raids and assaults by helicopter gunships. As a result, despite orders to keep casualties down, U.S. officers have been compelled to send Americans out on patrols to protect some bases themselves. Few G.I.s in Viet Nam these days are unaffected by the "I don't want to be the last man shot" syndrome. Thus, when such a patrol was ordered at Fire Base Pace last week, five...
...commanders, bases like Pace are a quandary. "If the guns are pulled out," said one artillery officer, "it will be the same as a slap in the face to the Vietnamese. We will be saying to them that we don't trust them to protect our firebases." At the same time, ARVN must learn to defend such installations, which, after all, are there to support the Vietnamese. Unless they do, a U.S. general said last week, "our men are going to be more and more involved in securing fewer and fewer bases...
Washington of course denies any such intent, although U.S. officials do concede that Canada was hit by a truck that was heading elsewhere-namely to Japan and Western Europe. For his part, Trudeau has turned aside suggestions from the opposition New Democratic Party that Ottawa slap a retaliatory export tax on natural gas, oil and minerals needed in the U.S., or restrict dividend payments to U.S. parent companies. He has settled on a milder response: a bill, passed by Parliament two weeks ago, setting up an $80 million kitty to aid hard-hit firms in maintaining their employment rolls...
...reduce the sting of those slaps, Nixon accordingly decided to turn Hirohito's routine refueling stop in Alaska into a chiefs-of-state ceremony complete with booming cannon, Marine Corps trumpeters and satellite coverage of the event for Japan's five TV networks. But even as the President prepared to reaffirm Japanese-American friendship, the U.S. administered yet another slap to Japan...