Word: totals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret folders and quickly made the decision on which troops to start pulling out of Viet Nam. The two 9th Infantry brigades and the Marine regimental combat team include roughly 17,000 men. They will be joined by about another 8,000 rear-echelon and naval personnel. The total number of American servicemen in the country will go down by less that 5%?but U.S. ground combat strength will be reduced by nearly...
...Russians have generally kept some 20 army divisions stationed in the Trans-Baikal and Far Eastern military regions. These have recently been beefed up to full strength, and some reports suggest that new divisions have been added-bringing total estimated armed strength up to as many as 1,500,000 men. Most of these are concentrated along the Trans-Siberian Railway east of Irkutsk. In Mongolia, theoretically an independent republic, Soviet authorities have stationed up to 200,000 new troops under a defense treaty signed in 1966. Fighter planes, which can land almost anywhere on the flat Mongolian plateau...
Stay the Knife. Technically, the total suppression of pain comes only with anesthesia, which cannot be prolonged. The lighter state of analgesia, or relief of pain without loss of consciousness, is far more difficult to achieve. For cancer patients with intractable pain of indisputably physical origin, neurosurgeons have devised a number of radical operations. One of the commonest, for pain anywhere below the neck, is cordotomy-literally, cutting the spinal cord-a remedy that is less drastic than it sounds. In the standard operation, the cord is exposed and a small cut is made in the nerve bundles controlling...
...troubles are coming to a head now because there has been an enormous growth in trading volume. An average of 13 million shares daily changed hands on the Big Board last year, or 21 times the total that exchange officials once expected to be reached in 1980. A rising proportion of the trading is done by institutions, for which the exchange's trading mechanisms and commission structure are ill adapted. Haack estimates that institutional trades now generate 50% of all commissions on his New York Exchange. Whether the exchange can hold this business against rising competition from other markets...
...company admits that it lost "several million" dollars in 1968. The Dodge Dart, priced at $3,400 in Spain, proved much too expensive and ostentatious even for government leaders. Last year, sales of Darts slipped to only 1,598, and Simcas to 31,106, out of a total Spanish car production of more than 300,000. To help the company get back on its feet, Chrysler planned another $30 million stock offering, which would have further reduced Barreiros' share of ownership. That, most likely, was what prompted Barreiros and his brothers to resign, though they still retain about...