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...This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military build-up on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakeable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation that imprisoned island...
...right direction. A Labor Party would be a giant step. The platform of the Socialist Workers Party makes many of the same demands voiced by the FNP, and sets forth a program appropriate for a Labor Party. Planks in this platform include: 1) an end to both military build-up at home and Vietnam-type adventurism abroad; 2) a militantly anti-racist government policy; 3) an end to HUAC and all it stands for; 4) 30 hour work week, with 40 hours' pay to end unemployment; 5) a government-guaranteed college education for all youth; 6) No taxes on incomes...
According to William Griffith a member of M.I.T.'s International Research Institute, there was not involved in the coup any pro-Chinese element which would indicate a build-up of Soviet militancy towards the West. He explained that many Russian objected to Khrushchev's tactics in meeting the Chinese challenge, but not to his basic policy. Griffith agreed with Fainsod that a "general complex of overextension in Khrushchev's policies" was responsible for the premier's overthrow...
...that can deflect a molten bomb weighing 100 Ibs., he carefully stalks into the craters, sometimes close to the roaring throats, and plants seismographs to measure the heartbeat of lava rising deep under the mountain. He samples gases with little glass tubes poked into hot ash, studies the unstable build-up of fresh cinders. So far, Tazieff has escaped without serious injury...
...great power can't let its prestige be kicked around," Morgenthau explained. He saw no connection between U.S. bases in Turkey and the Soviet military build-up in Cuba...