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...Sanh. There are alternate means of supplying Khe Sanh, but Route 1, which connects with Khe Sanh via Route 9, is the best, and will thus not be left gladly in enemy hands. One of Giap's aims in his general offensive is to stretch U.S. lines?and U.S. troop deployments?as thin and as wide as he can, forcing General Westmoreland to make difficult choices of priority...
...ship's sensitive receivers. Those signals are taped and sent back to Washington for detailed analysis. By charting radar pulse repetition rates and frequencies, intelligence officers can identify the electronic signalings of known radar systems and thus roughly determine enemy dispositions, while radio traffic analysis provides information on troop buildups or movements and even the names of enemy commanders. Such data also permit the development of jamming programs...
...nearly long enough, was naturally upset by the new schedule, delivered to Dean Rusk in Washington by Foreign Secretary George Brown. Short of registering its displeasure, though, there is little that the U.S. can do: Britain's SEATO membership, which she plans to retain, calls for no specific troop commitment. Washington's other concern was Britain's $350 million aircraft order with the U.S. for F-111 fighters. Since at least a dozen were ordered for Far East duty, some cancellations are almost sure to occur...
...here strengthens their determinations to develop this country according to the formula which they assume made the United States great. The integers of that formula are community development, civic responsibility, personal hygiene. So they often try to impose their own North American structures--the mothers club, the Boy Scout troop--onto communities which have for generations been highly structured according to their own culture. They try to impose the idea of civic loyalty that one finds in stable middleclass American towns onto rapidly growing Latin cities that are both poor and politically complex...
...ranging from the most abstruse branches of nuclear physics to secretarial training. The university also offers full-credit courses through a television network that reaches 80% of the state's population. On a given day, the Maritime College's 12,000-ton Empire State IV, a refitted troop transport, churns out toward the open sea; a lab class in horticulture at Cobleskill crossbreeds African violets. Future fashion designers cut patterns in Manhattan's garment district at the Fashion Institute of Technology, while future policemen seek an edge over criminals by studying at a criminology lab on Long...