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...seemed faintly reminiscent of the struggle to patch up Apollo 13 for its limping return to earth last April. This time the astronauts themselves were not in any danger-they could orbit the moon in Kitty Hawk and return safely-but it was clear that without a functioning docking apparatus, Antares was virtually useless, and there could be no lunar landing...
...ABRAMS has often summarized his tactical aims in the war as "targeting the enemy's system." He means that U.S. forces should not only seek out and fight Communist troops, but also destroy the elaborate apparatus that supports them?rest camps, ammunition caches, underground communication centers and especially supply lines. Abrams believes that killing one man with maps and plans is worth killing ten with rifles?because without the maps and plans the ten will not know what to do. In massing troops near the Ho Chi Minh Trail last week, the U.S. commander was obeying his long-felt instinct...
...concept, the negative income tax. But Friedman shackles the idea to what he calls, without being specific, a "modest" level of aid. Under the NIT, the tax scales would be continued downward past the zero-tax line; those with inadequate income would be given money through the internal revenue apparatus. The amount would be based on need and designed to encourage privately earned income. Friedman also would use NIT to replace all present welfare aid. (Ironically, Organizer Wiley also favors the NIT, but not at a modest level: N.W.R.O. seeks $5,500 a year for a family of four...
...Minh trail by America's entire Southeast Asian B-52 fleet has failed to stop the flow of supplies from the North (raids on supply depots in the North are probably being contemplated as a result). In fact, the entire war has tied down America's air apparatus so extensively that the U. S. military would be hard-pressed to mount a comparable offensive if confronted with other wars of national liberation such as those in Southeast Asia...
...defined terminology. Halacy's brisk reportage, use of quaint diagrams and illustrations, and obvious enthusiasm for scientific breakthroughs tend to overshadow the innumerable qualifications he must employ. For the present, perhaps all that we can be certain of is Ambrose Bierce's definition of the brain: "An apparatus with which we think that we think...