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...Texas-have been called up, and two more are on alert status. A total of 40,000 men will flesh out the five divisions and supporting units of the Seventh Army, which may also be reinforced by the 4th Infantry and the 2nd Armored by December. In all, the buildup this year will increase the number of Army combat divisions from...
John Kennedy had no intention of confining himself to Europe, for high on his list was the continuing Communist buildup in Laos and the fighting in South Viet Nam, far away in Southeast Asia. The President reminded Gromyko that he had agreed with Khrushchev on an independent and neutral Laos at their Vienna meeting last June, made it clear that the U.S. considers Russia's role there a test of its willingness to negotiate in good faith. Gromyko replied that Moscow also favored a solution in Laos, but he volunteered no method of achieving...
...week: "I have no faith in disarmament. There is always one s.o.b. in the world who won't go along with it.") But Foster is convinced that, ultimately, nuclear explosions can and should be brought to an end. "You're not helping your security by spiraling the buildup of arms," he says. "You're only counteracting...
Moscow's millions knew something was afoot even as they awoke and dressed for work one morning last week. The radio was droning out the full text of a long government communiqué. First came the strident buildup: "The United States and its allies are fanning up the arms race . . . preparing a new world holocaust while the Soviet government strives for peace. The Soviet Union considers it its duty to take all necessary measures...'' Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided...
France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who skillfully articulates what Charles de Gaulle allows him to say, argued that the West could bargain more firmly after the projected NATO troop buildup was complete, and that it was unseemly to be hasty. There were those present who thought the French had another motive. Prolonging the Berlin crisis a few extra weeks is one way to keep some nationalist responsibility alive in the French Army, which is nearly out of hand over Algeria and Tunisia. Courteously, Rusk bowed for now to his allies' insistent demands...