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...missing; the Communists claim that the figure is almost twice as high. Saigon reports that with U.S. air support, its troops inflicted 4,500 casualties on the enemy. Yet as a result of the performance in Snuol, there was enough high-level dismay in Saigon that the task force commander, Brigadier General Nguyen Van Hieu, was relieved of his command...
...tried to force much of the South Vietnamese military effort into conventional U.S. military forms. The whole Kennedy-McNamara-Johnson doctrine of slowly stepping up the levels of force was a failure. The enemy was always able to adapt and respond. The fantastic complexity of the U.S. command structure, the mystifying extra layer at Pearl Harbor, the tremendous logistical and bureaucratic component in our forces in Viet Nam -all of these deserve rigorous review. So do the American doctrines of airpower...
...government is trying to curb the narcotics traffic and other smuggling. Several arrests were made in March, and two U.S. pilots for Air America, an airline that operates widely out of Laos and is often used by the CIA, were fired for carrying narcotics into Viet Nam. The U.S. command declared all Vietnamese drugstores off limits to U.S. servicemen in order to discourage the buying of amphetamines and barbiturates. The Army followed suit by banning troops from bars, hotels and other businesses where drugs are known to be sold. But such measures have no effect on the thousands of other...
...sides, ostensibly well-educated people in full command of the English language talk about the media in this singular fashion. "The media is to blame for all the trouble," "The media carries only bad news," or (on rare occasions) "The media is the first defense line of American liberties." Webster's, that horror of permissiveness, allows the usage. It is, of course, illiterate: "media" is the plural of "medium"; hence the media are. The point may seem merely pedantic. But how people speak suggests a great deal about how they think and feel; language shapes philosophy, culture and destiny...
...Nixon Administration has made a command decision to save Lockheed. Having sent to Congress a bill to authorize the loan guarantee, President Nixon has assigned Treasury Secretary John Connally, a relentless persuader, to lead a hard-sell campaign on Capitol Hill. Hearings on the issue are scheduled to begin June 7, and there will be many dramatic confrontations before the final vote is taken, probably at the end of July. At the moment, a slim majority in Congress appears to favor the guarantee, though with much reluctance. As a price for it, California Senator Alan Cranston, a Democrat, demands...