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...South Viet Nam, including a contingent of some 3,900 troops of the historic 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") that landed last week. On the way from Fort Campbell, Ky., was a 4,000-man brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. Also ticketed for Viet Nam is the Army's recently created 1st Cavalry Air Mobile Division now in training at Fort Benning, Ga. By the end of this year, the U.S. will almost certainly have nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and if the Communists insist on stepping up their own effort, the U.S. troop...
...Troop Totals. Korea: 500 U.S. military advisers present at start, building up to a peak of 400,000 troops; some 1,250,000 Americans served in all, counting replacements. Viet Nam: a 685-man advisory mission in 1961, expanded to 72,000 servicemen as of last week with prospects that the number will rise to nearly 200,000 by year's end; so far, an estimated 200,000 Americans have served...
...statesman, with little enthusiasm for coping with the bafflements of Saigon politics. Moreover, there were indeed policy differences, of degree if not of direction, between Taylor and Johnson. During a visit to Washington last month, Taylor is said to have urged that the U.S. decide more clearly how existing troop commitments in Viet Nam are to be used before sending in more men; his advice was not accepted...
...through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields her lady crusaders and Colonel Burt Lancaster must deploy more horse soldiers to keep the girls out of trouble...
...bullets alone can hardly reverse Saigon's rising tide of corruption. A huge, incalculable bite from Washington's $1 billion foreign-aid program is taken each year by government and military officials. U.S. refrigerators and air conditioners meant for hospitals end up in generals' homes; troop commanders collect the "phantom pay" of soldiers whose deaths in combat go unreported to Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies him as a government spy, thus exempting him from army service. A trick currently in favor with provincial chiefs...