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Control of the air war involves two aspects: targeting and operations. Operational control has always rested with the Air Force. As former Ambassador William H. Sullivan said in Senate hearings last May, "the Air Force does not second the command of its aircraft... to the control of the Ambassador...
...core of the missionary effort. They take the injunction to preach literally. Dozens of high-powered transmitters operated by various evangelical groups now permit Protestant radio to cover the world with round-the-clock broadcasts, including areas where missionaries are forbidden. California-based Wycliffe Bible Translators carry the command to imaginative lengths. They train in a test "village" of primitive huts in the jungles of Mexico, then are sent to live unaided in the Latin American bush for six weeks. In order to get the Bible to many primitive peoples, they actually create a written language out of dialects that...
That is an attractive vision, generous in its view of humanity and human destiny, but also severely demanding of the Christians who take it seriously. It reveals the hard existential truth in Christ's command; that one who truly believes his faith must live it as well as tell it, that the crucial soul he is commanded to save...
...tall and wildly attractive to young women. "Entering the bottom edge of middle age," Jones writes, "he could relax a little and look back without anger." With his wife Louisa he gives regular Sunday suppers for the American colony (as does Jones), and his apartment becomes a kind of command post from which expatriates uneasily sally forth to see the carnage between the kids and De Gaulle's cops. On Jones' track record one might expect Harry to be hero-protagonist. Instead, the book produces Jonathan James Hartley III, a creaky, equivocal observer-narrator who could easily have...
...high level. The American command in Saigon said that during the first two weeks of the drive into Laos, U. S. helicopters had flown more than 10,000 missions across the border. U. S. tactical combat planes are flying more than 500 combat missions into Laos each day, South Vietnam has approximately ten helicopters involved in the drive...