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Durk said that a patrolman has almost complete freedom of action on his beat. "Insofar as it's your sector you are the law," he said...
Neither an end to the Viet Nam War nor continued expansion of the economy, by Nixon's calculations, offers much prospect of yielding dividends to buttress the nation's attack on its problems. Said he: "Existing programs of government and probable demands of the private sector could use up all the output we can produce for several years to come. If we decide to do something new or something more in one direction, we will have to give up something elsewhere." As he has before, Nixon blamed "the errors of the past" for much of the present...
...Cong units are so depleted that Giap must furnish at least 70% of the guerrillas despite his dwindling reservoir of manpower. Increasingly, both North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units are composed of teenagers. What is more, many of the Northerners are being sent to the southernmost Mekong Delta, a sector that is unfamiliar to them but is rapidly becoming one of the most crucial areas of the war. To bolster South Viet Nam's defenses there, President Nguyen Van Thieu last week replaced two top military commanders in the Delta. The North, determined to discredit President Nixon...
...should be explained of the Mounts in question that a Colony world-renowned for its agricultural Expertise resided in this Sector of the Country. In fulfillment of its Passion for Novelty, Change, and Variation in Produce and Animal Husbandry, this Colony had brought Nature to her Knees. Kneeling Nature was forced by cruel and often desperate Means continually to conceive new, and yet more bizarre Progeny: Nectarines or Peas without Pods, seedless Watermelons or Corns without Cobs, fatter Cows and Porkier Pigs, plumper Chickens and more caged Cocks...
...Sept. 15 -Israel detonates a Flouristan 238 Neutrino Anti-matter Fission Device (carried in a briefcase into the middle of the Sinai Peninsula) parting the Red Sea and setting fire to a limited sector of the firmament in what Israeli spokesmen term a "satisfactory test...