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...Journal emphatically agrees. "It is terribly important that we show the world that we are not just acting out of self-interest. If we try to compete with the Soviets just on the basis of might alone, we might find that we have lost a vital part of our armor. We badly need to convince neutral opinion that our cause is their cause...
...late, adding: "But it shows we are winning-this is Portugal's first reform in 500 years." His guerrillas, armed with muzzle-loading flintlocks and a few modern weapons captured in ambushes, confidently await next month's rains, when the roads will be impassable to Portuguese armor and the isolated army outposts can be surrounded and picked...
...death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender their antiSoviet armor," said he, in a bitter attack on all anti-Communist Jews outside the Soviet Union...
Across the globe, U.S. supply dumps are perilously low-lower, some Pentagon experts claim, than they were before the Korean War. The new funds will buy mountains of ammunition and fleets of new tactical support vehicles, such as armored personnel carriers and the highly-mobile 50-ton M-60 tanks, which are badly needed to match the powerful Russian armor now deployed in Europe...
...This is not the first time that a small band of freedom fighters has engaged the armor of totalitarianism...