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...slightest hint of Allied troop withdrawals unhinges the West Germans, who do not share their Allies' conviction that the Soviets have grown less aggressive. But the Germans argue that they cannot finance heavy purchases of British and U.S. equipment. Unless they are willing to undergo some belt tightening to raise additional funds, they may be forced to acquiesce to a thinning out of Allied troops...
...reduce the 218,000-man Seventh Army by 25% unless the Germans come through with substantial purchases. If cuts must come, the Americans hope that they can make them without impairing the army's fighting efficiency; the first reductions would probably be made among supply and support troops. U.S. planners argue that cutbacks would not matter greatly, since by 1970, when the 700-troop-capacity C-5A jets come into service, the U.S. will be able to lift troops overnight from strategic reserves in the U.S. to prepared combat positions in West Germany...
...chronicle of this confusion is familiar: while Ambassador Goldberg proposes that the United States would de-escalate if the North Vietnamese would do likewise, Secretary McNamara announces a significant increase in air armaments; while the President pleads for peace, the troop increases continue with no end in sight; and, most serious of all, while this country professes a desire to come to the conference table, the President tactlessly declares that the United States will never unilaterally halt the bombings of the North--thus damaging, in one brief, blunt moment the preconditions needed for negotiations...
...result of these contradictions has been the notorious "credibility gap." Yesterday's announcement from Manila that U.S. troops will not stay on indefinitely in South Vietnam cannot, by itself, be expected to close the gap. In fact, the declaration followed remarks by U.S. military spokesmen that the current troop build-up will continue unabated. And it means little to pledge withdrawal within six months of a unilateral decision that troops are no longer needed when the key point is uncertain: How far does the U.S. intend to press...
Alvarez Kelly, like most pictures that prattle about cattle, leaves the customers feeling that they ought to raise a beef. But there is more than moo in this moovie. There is, for example, a galloping good story that describes with cheerful inaccuracy how in 1864 a troop of Confederate cavalry rustled about 2,500 steers from the Union forces and then sent them thundering through Grant's lines to the relief of Richmond. What's more, the story provides Director Edward Dmytryk with irresistible opportunities to plant a little poison ivy on the grave of Southern chivalry...