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...important North Rhine Wesphalia state elections. The Armed Forces crisis over the pressure from German generals for more authority within the defense establishment has furnished the Social Democratic opposition with powerful ammunition against Erhard's government. And Germans in general are worried about the possibility of U.S. troop withdrawals, and doubt the determination of this country to defend them in case of Russian attack...
...fact they grossly exceeded them. A few days before L.BJ. announced his proposals to combat inflation and tight money, he stoutly denied that he was planning any such action-though his economic advisers had been working for days to formulate his program. Last year, long after the massive troop buildup in Viet Nam was under way, Johnson persistently denied any fundamental change in the nation's basic commitment or strategy...
...disposition of Lin's army is essentially defensive, with troops stationed at the points where China's leaders fear assault. The two biggest troop concentrations, totaling 800,000 men, are in the industrial northeast-around the Manchurian factory complexes and facing the Soviet border-and on the Great Plains between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. Some 600,000 more troops are stacked up like nice neat boxes along the eastern coast from Kiangsu to Kwangtung province, with a 200,000-man bulge directly across from Formosa. Surprisingly enough, there are no more than 200,000 soldiers along...
...thick jungle country 35 miles north of Saigon, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division ran into a hornets' nest last week. Assigned to secure Highway 16 for a supply convoy due to move through, elements of "the Big Red One" wandered unknowingly into a major Viet Cong troop concentration. It took the efforts of three full battalions to blast out the entrenched V.C., and much of the fighting was at close quarters-where accidents can happen...
...advocate the giving of material aid to "any hostile foreign power"-North Viet Nam, for instance -or to impede the movements of U.S. military personnel and materiel. Some protest groups have collected funds to buy medical supplies for Vietnamese Communists, and on a few occasions have attempted to block troop trains-acts that would be treasonable in war time but are difficult to punish legally in peacetime. Chairman Joe Pool of Texas, sponsor of the bill, and his subcommittee colleagues summoned both the practitioners of these methods and friendly witnesses to appear before them...