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...Reserve divisions were so inferior that it would probably have required one year after full mobilization to bring them to combat readiness-far too long for the Pentagon's war plans. The National Guard will also undergo drastic surgery: 15 of its divisions will be disbanded. But the transfer of the Reserve to the National Guard will increase Guard strength to 550,000 officers and men in eight ready-to-go divisions and 16 brigades. Through the consolidation, McNamara expects to save $150 million per year...
...speeches, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, will present a plan for urban-rural cooperation in South Vietnam. The VYA, like its American counterpart, places special emphasis on direct personal contact. Its plan involves the transfer of skilled labor to rural areas in order to equalize the rural and urban standards of living...
...Pocket. Another method for transfer was used when Wennerström attended diplomatic receptions at the Soviet embassy: "One arrives wearing an overcoat. The coat is hung on a numbered hanger far in the rear. Remembering the number, you enter the reception room, acting normally. When you meet your contact, you must greet him as usual and occasion to tell him the number. You separate, and the contact goes to the coat hangers and gets the material in the pockets." Wennerström liked to use hangers...
...Minister to the Premier"-his father's right-hand man-he moved in on other Cabinet members, virtually running the Greek economy. To prove his Greekness, he abruptly canceled Voice of America rebroadcasts, was quoted as making anti-NATO statements (which he later denied), and forced the transfer of the U.S. Information Agency chief from Athens...
...less successful were the Argentine generals who ousted Arturo Frondizi in 1962 only to compound their country's problems and transfer the mess to a weak President Arturo Illia. In the Dominican Republic, the military overthrew the inept Juan Bosch, then turned over power to a triply inept civilian triumvirate. And in Honduras, the army officers who toppled President Ramon Villeda Morales last year are slowly running the country's faltering economy into the ground...