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...strategies to the ugly business of counterinsurgency warfare. While not losing sight of their concrete aim-complete and permanent U. S. domination of Southeast Asia-American leaders have been acutely aware of the war's "experimental" nature, and its relevance to other situations of potential insurgency has remained uppermost in their minds...
Late Doubts. Duty, he insists, was uppermost in his mind. He was willing to do "everything the American people want me to. That's what the Army's for. Majority rules, and if a majority tells me, 'Lieutenant, go and kill 1,000 enemies,' I'll go and kill 1,000 enemies. But I won't advocate it. I won't preach for it. I won't be a hypocrite about...
McGrory called Neustadt at the Hay-Adams Thursday night with this interpretation already uppermost in her mind. Neustadt told her that the group was talking to Kissinger purely as a surrogate for the President, and that his relation to Harvard would not enter the discussion at all. Unsure that he had communicated this to her, he had Bator call her back again with the same story. Then Yarmolinsky called her too, for good measure. After this final phone call, Yarmolinsky told the group, "Mary's message is that no one else needs to call...
Period Paintings. Five years ago, when social conscience was not so uppermost, Director Elliot Silverstein had no compunction about lampooning the deadpan red man in Cat Ballou. In A Man Called Horse, he capitalizes on honesty. Little of this American-made film is in English; the cast is largely composed of true Indians who look as authentic as their names: Richard Fools Bull, Ben Eagleman, Edward Little Sky. The movie portrays the Sioux as a repressive, formally violent people who master their mutual hysteria by refracting it into a hundred narrow superstitions. But their cruelty is no more harsh...
...Brezhnev's catchier slogans and undoubtedly reflects his genuine goal for the Soviet Union. But as Russia's workers have long since learned, their labors support a system in which the standard of living is not the uppermost priority. No matter how the Soviet leadership decides to divide the rubles of the '70s, there is little doubt that the military will continue to demand a disproportionate share of the country's wealth. Tomorrow, as any soldier sees it, a nation can live only as well as it is armed today...