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...chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Fulbright is in a unique position to know what is happening in the world-and manages to sound that way. Nonetheless, in Canberra last week, on his way to a Commonwealth parliamentary conference in New Zealand, the usually oracular Fulbright shocked proud Australians by admitting he was "not aware" of Australia's commitment (1,550 men) to Viet Nam. In any case, he added loftily, he did not favor "great wars." Sensitive Aussies, who have been divided on their own role in the war, reacted predictably. Snapped Labor M.P. Albert...
...River be transformed into an Asian TVA project. The bank's capital will be chiefly in hard currencies supplied by governments. Most of the money has already been pledged: $200 million each from the U.S. (subject to congressional approval) and Japan, $100 million jointly from Australia and New Zealand, $300 million from 20 Asian nations and $100 million from Europe. The Soviet Union has not yet decided whether it will join (it suffers from a shortage of hard currencies, which it has been using to buy wheat), so far has contributed nothing to the project...
...largest and hardest-pressed of Viet Nam's four corps areas, Force V includes the First Team at An Khe, the 101st Airborne's 1st Brigade, and the arriving South Koreans, who will be under American command. The Royal Australian Regiment and the Royal New Zealand Artillery batteries are largely under their own command. Working from the long-established pattern of the advisers' program, U.S. officers confer with their Vietnamese counterparts virtually on a daily basis up and down the line...
...water buffaloes and silent paddies, helicopters brought in troops of the 173rd U.S. Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment. The clearing in the trees was soon a blur of yellow red and green flare smoke, darting transport choppers, and prowling Cobras (armed helicopters). A battery of the Royal New Zealand Artillery moved up by truck. Finally, as a heavy rain began to fall, the Vietnamese paratroopers swooped down among the rubber trees in the biggest parachute assault in Viet Nam since 1963. Soon the troops the four nations joined up, and 5,000 men began moving across a ten-mile...
...people making all that fuss about Robert Manry's 3,200-mile crossing of the Atlantic. [Aug. 27]? The Dutch retired Air Force lieutenant general, Hans Maurenbrecher, sailed, all by himself, more than 12,000 miles from Holland to New Zealand between July 14, 1964 and April...