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...elephant grass was thicker than anyone had imagined. After this month's riots, Johnson felt that urban and poverty programs would have to be expanded rather than cut. Though he also vetoed any major troop increase for Viet Nam, he did approve increments that would push war spending up by at least $2.5 billion...
...reserve that, on call, will help to patrol the coast, operate ground-surveillance radar stations and perform other such duties. He is also trying to modernize the country's 600,000-man armed forces, replacing World War II rifles with the new M16, buying U.S. helicopters for better troop mobility and adding new tanks...
...Chinese influence," and 86 per cent disagreed with the statement that "the war helps prevent the spread of communism into other areas of Asia." Fifty per cent of the audience indicated support for "an immediate U.S. withdrawal" from Vietnam, and 88 per cent voted for "gradual and unilateral U.S. troop withdrawal under the umbrella of negotiations." To the question "does escalation of the war increase prospects of war with China?" 85 per cent answered "yes," and 83 per cent said they would "support those individuals who decide to refuse cooperation with the Selective Service System because they consider...
...Jozef Kutin, a deputy foreign trade minister, and Wilhelm Billig, head of Poland's nuclear-energy office and a former chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Without explanation, it relieved three top-ranking generals, including the head of the vast Warsaw Military District, of their troop commands and consigned them to out-of-the-way desk jobs. It dropped an Olympics official in the department of state sports and dismissed the rector and deputy rector, both Jews, of the Lodz State College of Theater and Film, which has produced such directors as Roman Polanski (Knife...
Something Livelier. The Huey was not the only attraction. Elsewhere in the 7,200-sq.-ft. exhibit, whole families scrambled into an M-113 armored personnel carrier for a four-minute film-viewable through the driver's cupola-simulating the troop vehicle's jolting movement over land and water on its way into battle. At a shooting gallery, more kids lined up for electronic target practice with Army rifles ranging from the .58-cal. Civil War "Zouave" to the M16, or tried to knock out miniature moving tanks with a fixed "Dragon" antitank missile launcher, the weapon that...