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...work of regular ministries in such diverse fields as press censorship, civil service and sports. He has trimmed the power of his junta associates by relieving Pattakos of command of the politically powerful armored forces training center near Athens and putting his own men in key positions as troop commanders and secret police officials...
Since President Johnson authorized 45,000 more servicemen for Viet Nam -to bring total troop strength there to 525,000 by next July-Congressmen have questioned whether the men can be supplied without jeopardizing U.S. commitments elsewhere or mobilizing the reserves. The answer, says the Pentagon, is that indeed they...
...said the Defense Secretary, U.S. fighter-bombers averaged 13,000 sorties a month over the North -75% of them directed against lines of communication and goods moving over them. "In addition, we have struck approximately 1,900 fixed targets in North Viet Nam, including 57 bridges, 50 major railyards, troop barracks, petroleum storage tanks and power plants...
...Brother. West Germans have been worried about troop cutbacks since May, when the U.S. announced a "redeployment rotation" of its NATO forces that will take 35,000 Americans out of West Germany. On its part, Bonn alarmed the Pentagon in July by reporting that budgetary troubles would force a reduction in the Bundeswehr of as many as 60,000 men, weakening NATO's defenses at the Eastern frontier...
...Also, Bonn will maintain a ready reserve force of some 200,000 that can be used to flesh out cadre units on a few days' notice. In net effect, Kiesinger told Johnson, "I do not believe it will be necessary to reduce one troop...