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...most serious pressures on the economy has resulted from the mushrooming of the army. Around 30,000 on March 18, it has now grown to 140,000. Plans call for it to be expanded to 210,000 during 1971. The Cambodian soldier is relatively well-paid, receiving about $360 a year in a country where the average annual income is estimated at about $125. The major thrust of American economic aid will be support for the army...
Above all, he would have had to reckon with the armed forces. No Soviet leader could gain power today in the face of the army command's express opposition. An elite, well-paid and tradition-conscious group of professionals, the military officer corps is one of the most cohesive elements in Soviet society. Moreover, as the protector of an invasion-wary people, the army commands genuine popular respect, even though its vast appetite for funds is chiefly responsible for persistent shortages of consumer goods. Top political leaders rely heavily on military expertise for advice on policies as diverse...
Board Chairman John Mahan ruefully confessed to a congressional committee that he and his four fellow members devoted much of their well-paid time (salary: $36,000 a year) to the study of hostile federal court decisions. Instead of fighting Communism, the board kept busy coping with bad publicity, such as the 1967 news that President Johnson had levitated the 29-year-old husband of one of his favorite secretaries to a board sinecure...
...well-paid Western pilots who flew into Uli for relief agencies did so at night to avoid marauding MIG-17s and Ilyushin-28 bombers, supplied to Nigeria by the Russians and flown by Egyptian pilots. Food planes from the Portuguese island of Sao Tome, Red Cross flights and gunrunners from Libreville in Gabon circled over the airstrip only briefly, then dropped swiftly through the African darkness for bumpy landings during the ten seconds in which the runway lights were flipped on by a camouflaged control tower. A Nigerian night fighter nicknamed "Genocide" tried to pick them off as they landed...
Angela is instead a high-priced courtesan-a professional-who entertains clients with unusual sexual tastes in her suburban apartment near Chestnut Hill. She is well-paid for her services, and lives accordingly. She wines, dines, and occasionally travels with her customers throughout the country. She'll drink only Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry or imported Mumm's champagne, wears expensive clothes from Bonwit's and Best and Co. where she maintains charge accounts, and from Truc-a place that fascinates her. She drives a new Cougar convertible, visits the Jazz Workshop when it features top musicians, reads...