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George Wallace's third-party quest for the presidency has captured so many hearts and spleens that by last week he was already on the November ballot in 16 states. Yet a briar patch was growing in his own home state. His reputation is built not only on the sands of segregation but on a claim of bedrock honesty as well. "The books are always open," he liked to brag about his days as Alabama Governor. Now an angry Alabamian has opened the books in federal court...
...shipped into the city and thus require transport that could otherwise be used for war goods. North Viet Nam has only recently solved the problem of food shortages, and Ho would not be likely to dismantle a successful system now. The North is, however, using the pause to patch up roads, rails and bridges continually hit by U.S. bombs...
Easing the Burden. Before Johnson spoke, rumors had swirled around the capital that he would announce the dis patch of roughly 30,000 more U.S. troops to Viet Nam-in addition to the 525,000 already authorized. Instead, he announced that only 13,500 more men would be sent in the next five months...
...shot through the back of the head, the bullet coming ou through the mouth. The faces would have been difficult to recognize, but the day before 27 women from the village walked out three miles carrying mattocks to dig for their missing husbands and sons, having heard about this patch of disturbed earth near the roadside. Ostara told me that the enemy had come through on their way to Hué. They had taken 27 men. Some were leaders and some were younger, strong enough to be porters or even ancillary soldiers...
...solution, in fact, seems to be little more than an emergency patch of blue, though it is at least that. Last week he gave out the figures for February, and they seem to bear out the point. The number of robberies had bobbed back up from 163 to 207. But the rate did not go up in the crackdown areas; all the increase was in previously low-crime areas. Headley thinks that means that the crackdown has driven some criminals into new territory. The obvious conclusion: intensified police work can make a dent in crime but it is no substitute...