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Drastic Turnover. Other dilemmas face Clifford, notably how extensive an anti-ballistic missile system to recommend and what to do about the continued deployment of 200,000 U.S. troops in Europe in the light of balance of payments problems and manpower shortages elsewhere...
...Everyone assumed that the Committee would recommend getting rid of Instructors in all departments," Hutchins said. "So the Government department decided that it might as well make the move independently and improve its bargaining position...
...Battle of the Tet offensive does not come at Khesanh, or if the U.S. faces a crucial major battle in an area where the terrain doesn't prevent effective use of nukes, Pentagon officials have suggested they would recommend nuclear weapons as a last resort...
...that may yet be monumental for the future of American libraries is peacefully hibernating. It was finished in late November by a committee of the American Council of Learned Societies (including University Librarian, Douglas W. Bryant) and dispatched to President Johnson's Commission on Libraries which was expected to recommend huge new federal programs a few weeks after. Three months later the Commission still is sitting on the final version of its report. The silence could be broken any day, but it seems increasingly likely that the Commission is simply waiting this legislative season...
Behind the delay lies the widening shadow cast by the Vietnam war. Because of the war's expense, Bryant says, the President probably "doesn't want to introduce new programs that have to be financed in novo." It is not clear just what the Commission's report will recommend, but it is sure to call for big increases in federal expenditures on libraries. And Johnson gave this kind of expenditure a distant second priority in his Education message to Congress, so the immediate prospects for pushing federal construction of massive new research centers look thoroughly bleak...