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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major actions, government forces killed at least 475 Viet Cong "hardcore" regulars while losing only 50 troops of their own. Communist losses for March were 1,625 v. 730 dead on the Saigon side. More important, the government won 13 of 18 major engagements, lost only half the number of weapons (1,280) and half the deserters (725) that it had lost in February. All the success has come since U.S. planes began striking directly at the Reds-not only within South Viet Nam but also in the north. The odds of March were clearly on the government...
...three battalions of Viet Cong shock troops. Falling back on a tenuous perimeter, the marines fought off ten "human wave" attacks over an eight-hour period before they were reinforced by a heavy-weapons company and air support. When it was all over, 137 Viet Cong were dead, v. five for the government (none American...
...Generation. Fact is, 55% of West Germany's population today were under 25 years of age on V-E day, and the new generation hardly feels responsible for the sins of its elders. What does concern Germans of all ages is an increasing desire to assert a national identity, hardly a novel emotion. Polls show that reunification is a burning question for a majority of West Germans. Obviously, the lack of real nationhood could give the spark of opportunity to precisely the kind of German ultranationalism that the world learned to dread in two world wars...
Javits foresees a barrier-free trading area stretching from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego and embracing a population of 220 million, with an annual gross national product of $75 billion (v. the European Common Market's 180 million population and $250 billion G.N.P.). The area's sales potential would be so great that Latin Americans would be encouraged to manufacture their raw materials into finished goods themselves, thus not only creating new wealth and new jobs but also freeing the area from its forced dependence on exporting raw materials and importing finished goods. Javits envisions ultimate...
When and if the Caspian closes down, the world's high livers will have to adjust their taste buds to Canadian caviar -a slightly sweeter version that currently sells fresh for about $20 a pound (v. about $50 a pound for fresh Russian caviar). But even this supply is limited. Canadian industrial growth may limit it still more, and the taste of the tiny grey fish eggs exploding on the tongue may soon be a fading memory...