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Largely because of interdicted roads and waterways, business and commerce throughout I Corps is down some 20%. Pre-Tet, me pacification program embraced fewer than 300 of the corps' 4,000 hamlets. Even so, two-thirds of the Revolutionary Development pacification teams had to abandon their assigned hamlets when the shooting started. Some 80 R.D. teams have since gone back to their hamlets...
Rather than abandon such a marvelous aggression-outlet--especially as it was well-established around Boston,--the Harvard team declined Yale's invitation to join the new Intercollegiate Association. Harvard's dramatic decision secured the continued existence of rugby-style football in America and led in time to the development of the modern game...
...America's leaders do not always make the right decisions. Or make them for the right reasons. If the U.S. Olympic Committee should abandon classical approach to the separation of track and state and search for other considerations on which to make a decision, then the following problems should be explored...
...would probably force Lyndon Johnson to mobilize the reserves, call up the National Guard, increase the draft, and put the economy on a full war footing-all unpleasant options in an election year. Withholding the troops, on the other hand, could force the U.S. to abandon for good the tactics of flexibility and mobility that long kept the enemy off balance, and shift instead to a static, enclave-style stance...
...television stations to withdraw his largesse. McLendon has decided that "our nation is without leadership, and you and I are going broke." Therefore he disdains to lead Lyndon Johnson's state out of the morass. He did, however, offer the President some advice. The U.S., he said, must abandon all of its commitments abroad, become a neutralist nation and henceforth leave attempts to solve the world's headaches to the Communists. McLendon will hardly be missed in the Texas race: ten other Democrats and three Republicans are already campaigning for Connally...