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Tougher U.S. action could not be ruled out if the Communists showed signs of moving south from the Plaine des Jarres into the Mekong River valley itself. This would strengthen their supply routes to Communist guerrillas fighting in neighboring South Viet Nam, where the U.S. is deeply committed with both men and money. Though the State Department dreaded the thought of any further military involvement in Southeast Asia, officials made it clear that more troops might be brought into the area to safeguard Laotian neutrality...
Many individual batting averages dropped as a result of the team's poor showing last weekend. In an attempt to strengthen the offense, coach Norm Shepard will start sophomore Gary Miller in right field in place of Bobby St. George, who is currently hitting at a low .161 clip. Nonetheless, three Crimson batsmen, Gilmor, Bartolet, and Bilodeau, still have averages over...
...this came to be makes a silly story. Last December Mr. Kennedy asked General Lucius Clay to head a foreign aid study group with the grotesque name of "The Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World." To this committee were appointed men who had in common, for the most part, some faith in the principles behind foreign aid, considerable doubts about the efficiency of its administration, and unmistakable leanings toward the most solid, banker's, balanced-budget sort of economics. (Save for Eugene Black, ex-President of the World Bank, and the economics Edward S. Mason, they also...
...mistake for the U.S. to try to engage in anything like a worldwide welfare program. What we are trying to do is assist the people of these countries to get in the position where they can solve their own problems." Last month President Kennedy's special Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, headed by retired General Lucius D. Clay, produced a report that, while thoroughly endorsing the principle of foreign aid, declared: "We cannot believe that our national interest is served by indefinitely continuing commitments at the present rate to 95 countries and territories" (TIME, March...
...same time the ambassador repeatedly emphasized that "France does not mistrust the U.S." He argued that, rather than weakening the Western forces, an independent nuclear force in France will strengthen the West against the Soviet threat...