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...Classic Touch. With the rainy season ending, the tactical advantage shifts to the Portuguese troops, who can now take the offensive without bogging down in the mud. But some 5.000 white soldiers have arrived from Lisbon to beef up Angola's 2,000-man regular garrison. Roberto's forces are also grouping for a showdown. He claims that he is getting financial aid from Tunisia to fuel his revolt but denies that he is getting any help from Ghana (the Portuguese have admitted that they made a mistake in claiming the capture of 71 "Ghanaians"). "The Portuguese have...
Against Softness. Strong and relatively prosperous, Thailand is in no immediate danger. In the event of trouble. Strongman Sarit can call on a 90,000-man army, well-trained and equipped by the U.S. But the Thais, who wanted to send troops to Laos (and actually did beef up the Laotian army with a few volunteers), are angry at what they consider U.S. softness. Officials in Bangkok hinted that Sarit might take the precaution of trading in his pro-Western stand for a more neutralist line...
...move into the area to defend it against Communist attack. A serious proposition was that South Viet Nam and Thai land might be invited to ask for U.S. help on the ground that they are threatened by outside forces, allowing the U.S. to send in troops to beef up the national armies. The problem of sending U.S. forces into South Viet Nam "is a matter still under consideration," admitted President Kennedy last week...
...White House functions, ashtrays were scattered about. Glass bowls contained alcoholic (domestic champagne) and unspiked punches; to guide teetotalers the nonalcoholic drink was garnished with oranges, the darker-hued champagne version with strawberries. In the State Dining Room there was a mammoth buffet of chicken à la king, roast beef, pheasant, tongue, turkey and ham. Footman John Pye, a White House servant since the days of Woodrow Wilson, declared it the finest spread of his tenure. By 11:45 the presidential host (who learned of the Cuban debacle just before the party began) had taken his leave to spend long...
...troubles cropped up in the strongest of U.S. alliances. Convinced that non-nuclear war is now possible in Europe, U.S. strategists want to beef up NATO's strength in conventional weapons. For the President the new doctrine meant long hours of convincing West Germany's change-wary Konrad Adenauer (see Foreign Relations) that the U.S. resolve to defend Berlin and Europe has not weakened. Far more challenging would be Kennedy's Paris confrontation next month with France's Charles de Gaulle, who has called for drastic changes in NATO. Kennedy may promise De Gaulle a stronger...