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...number of recent Secretaries of State, he has never published a single book and has rarely written articles on foreign affairs, outside of official speeches and reports. And although he was the top deputy to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and strongly endorsed President Johnson's escalation of the U.S. troop commitment to Viet Nam, he has received remarkably little personal criticism for that role...
...suddenly alone again, hitching up the road to the Red Sox training camp at Chain-O-Lakes Park out on Cypress Boulevard, where the Boston sportswriters were furiously clucking away at their plastic portable typewriters with half-crazed treachery written all over them. Body counts--buddies gone--a troop movement. Something had happened...
...social groups that we knew, the male primate was larger and dominant, and the group depended on the male's leadership and the males provided the continuity... The males had critical roles in the troop. We saw dominance hierarchies, and we saw that these hierarchies were the essence of social organization and made the group possible by keeping peace within the members of the group...
Sources in Washington said the U.S. government had learned earlier of the big troop and weapons movements toward the frontier and one high level source said, "It sounds like much more than a small raid...
...middle of the arid winter season, the water holes will have dried up; the soldiers will have to quench their thirst at the stagnant pools buffaloes use for wallowing. Ticks, fleas and horseflies are constant irritants, and at night elephant herds have been known to lumber blindly through troop positions. But the main hazard is the growing number of guerrillas coming across the borders. Says one major: "No army has ever had to fight a guerrilla war like this, on a one-to-one basis...