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...Troop Movements...
Heftier Budget. Perhaps the most comprehensive method of assessing Soviet defense spending is that developed by the CIA. It reckons what the Kremlin would pay if it had to buy arms and support its troops at U.S. prices. While this permits a statistical basis for comparing Soviet efforts with those of the U.S., for a time it also provoked charges that it overstated Soviet spending, thus providing ammunition for advocates of a heftier Pentagon budget. Bowing to this criticism, the CIA revamped its estimating procedures by eliminating controversial items and drawing on improved intelligence-gathering techniques. Although the new estimate...
...conch shells and cymbals sounded, the first flower-decked palanquin, bearing the leader of Hinduism's Maha Nirvana sect, moved toward the river bank near Allahabad where the Yamuna River meets the Ganges. Alongside marched a troop of elephants, trumpeting, their heaving bodies covered with garlands and painted symbols. Then through the police cordon flowed thousands of pilgrims from nine other ancient Hindu sects. Among them came a procession of Naga sadhus, celibate holy men who follow Shiva, the god of the forces of both life and destruction. They were all naked, except for a coating of sand...
...kind of honor that many graduates of West Point [Dec. 27] often display is one of the most reprehensible aspects of that institution's mores. In Viet Nam, I have seen an otherwise extremely competent squadron commander (West Point graduate) allow an extremely incompetent troop commander (West Point graduate) to continue his command so that he could accumulate his six months of combat command duty. This while his incompetence was killing young American soldiers...
...position I have advocated in public is that in the interests of the United States and Asian security, we should maintain troop levels in South Korea until a peace treaty is signed and the surrounding powers agree on a settlement or at least until there is a reduction of tensions on the Korean peninsula. I believe the United States has serious long term responsibilities in the area and particularly to the people of Korea and these responsibilities go beyond any particular regime. I have also taken issue publicly with criticism of the Korean government including restriction of academic freedom, trial...