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...will do it a little faster. Abe has a way of getting people to move fast." Among those Westmoreland efforts: the creation of a smaller, more professional and more efficient Army; improved race relations; more effective drug controls; and a reduction in rapid command turnovers...
...becomes the next Premier, money had already begun to talk -and sometimes shriek. After Sato resigned with a farewell blast at the press-"I hate biased newspapers" -Japanese last week were counting not only the merits of the rival candidates but also the amounts of hard cash that they command...
...found Lavelle was indeed exceeding his command authority. Wilson specifically pinpointed 147 sorties into North Viet Nam by Lavelle's planes in violation of the war's Rules of Engagement. The bombings had been reported as protective reaction strikes when, in fact, there had been no enemy firings, and Lavelle was choosing his own targets. There may well have been many more than the 147 the inspector general identified: during the four months in question, Lavelle's planes reported 1,300 protective reaction strikes...
...prologue to the Stravinsky/Craft Retrospectives and Conclusions, with the composer still eating crayfish "at an alarming rate," but this time in Paris. "For some of us," wrote the Times's music critic Donal Henahan, "Robert Craft has dissipated his credibility as historian and biographer, though he may still command our admiration as the Georgette Heyer or Thomas B. Costain of musical history...
Died. Admiral Felix Stump, 77, former commander of the Pacific Fleet; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A brusque, no-nonsense Annapolis man, Stump was skipper of a seaplane tender at the start of World War II. He was soon given a carrier command and then led the U.S. Navy carrier task force during the battle of Leyte Gulf. As chief of the Pacific Fleet (1953-58), Stump was responsible for maintaining the nation's military ties with Asian allies...