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...variation of the same maneuver, instead of running, a small V.C. force stands and fights a larger U.S. unit. Then, while the Americans are busy but not overly concerned about their safety, a larger Communist force slips in to surround the U.S. unit. That tactic worked all too well last month in the jungles just north of la Drang, where a company of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division was enveloped by a force of 1,000 Communists. U.S. casualties were 44 dead and 27 wounded...
Already plans are going ahead for a huge reflecting basin at the base of the Capitol (a new freeway will be routed underneath the basin). Elsewhere, plans are being developed for underground parking for 25,000 cars, which at present clog the Mall and surround the Lincoln Memorial with a carbon-monoxide sea at rush hour. Funds are also now available for the Pershing Monument, which will serve as the nucleus for a new National Center at the White House end of Pennsylvania Avenue. And as of last week, most of the go ahead signals had been given for three...
...prisoner with no expectation of immediate parole. "Excuse the typing," he wrote. "In the past, I have had the good fortune to have others do my typing. Now, however, in this exile I have become accustomed to doing things as best I can alone under the circumstances that surround...
...system hinges on the installation of an atomic clock and a 40-lb. computer mechanism in every U.S. commercial aircraft. At three-second intervals, precisely timed signals from the computers would surround each aircraft with a protective electronic bubble. When one bubble touched another, the system would trigger an audio-visual alarm and possibly give the pilots a harmless electric shock. In today's jets, the warning would come 60 seconds prior to possible collision, when the aircraft were about 20 miles apart. Twenty seconds later, after electronic analysis of courses, speeds and altitudes, the sensor-computers would signal...
Nitze's promotion was prompted by the resignation of Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance, 50. Despite the controversy that used to surround Nitze, the prospect is for easy confirmation of the man who has served ably and patiently under five Presidents...