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...member of the new White House family who is getting the biggest buildup by colleagues as the Administration's "strongman" is McGeorge Bundy, 41, Kennedy's special assistant on national security affairs. Yaleman Bundy earned his reputation as a dynamo at Harvard, where he became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at 34, and, soon afterward, a force on university administration councils. Kennedy is well aware of Bundy's growing prestige and says with a chuckle: "I think I'll continue to have residual functions...
...Kissinger joins in the urgent warning that the buildup of Russian missile strength calls for a drastic overhaul of U.S. defense policy. While somewhat nervously overstating the imminent peril of the missile gap ( TIME. Feb. 17). Kissinger argues convincingly that U.S. forces, in order to deter, must be able to absorb a first strike and still retaliate with the promise of damage which the Soviets will find unacceptable...
...wanted wider powers, enabling him to block money transfers from abroad to Congo banks and to search all incoming planes for arms.. But many sensitive African nations were wary of too much power for the U.N. For its part, the U.S. was urging Belgium to cease its arms buildup in Katanga-aid that, in African eyes, was just as "unilateral" and disruptive as the Communists' support for Gizenga. (With extraordinarily bad timing, a chartered Stratocruiser arrived in Katanga last week carrying three crated jet fighters, doubtless procured with Belgian assistance.) At one point, there was broad agreement among...
...problems the giant corporation is facing in the marketplace. Its share of industry sales, 15% last year, has slumped to 11.2%. The slow sales have pushed its inventory of unsold cars to 185,000, about a 100-day supply when 30 to 45 days is normal. To curb this buildup, Chrysler has laid off 10,000 of its 70,000 hourly workers. In addition, 8,000 of the company's 30,000 white-collar workers are being fired, a permanent cut aimed at trimming as much as $60 million in salaries. Another cost-cutter: selling the company...
...Just how wan was demonstrated last week in Viet Nam, where a parallel control commission, set up at the end of the Indo-China war, still operates. The U.S. presented evidence of a huge arms buildup in North Viet Nam, but the Polish member voted against an on-the-spot inspection, and the Indian chairman agreed...