Word: buildup
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...just off the press, none other than Nikita pressed Stalin in vain to change his tactics before the Nazis attacked in 1941. And who saved Stalingrad? "Great meritorious service in that connection was performed by N. S. Khrushchev," political commissar on the Stalingrad front. With this advance buildup, the thousands in the audience gave Old Soldier Khrushchev round after round of cheers as he loosed his latest series of blasts at the West...
...armed forces." Russia, after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
...happen? Piecing together the answer, 37 investigators for the Civil Aeronautics Board tracked down lead after lead for 17 months. Last week, submitting its report, the CAB unfolded a story of one man's anguish-and a long buildup to tragedy...
...Communists did not accept his plan, his countrymen gave him plaudits for his coolness and courage. But in stark fact, Kennedy's move failed to achieve anything against the cunning and purposefulness of Nikita Khrushchev. The Russians have simply stalled on a ceasefire, and meanwhile the buildup of Communist arms in Laos has continued. The tuition fee for Kennedy's foreign-policy education in Laos may be the loss of that country to Communism...
...midst of the Frente buildup, the underground sabotage operations of the M.R.P. inside Cuba came almost to a halt for lack of matériel. In November, Manolo Ray sneaked out of Cuba to the U.S., hoping to win some support. Anxious to collect all anti-Castro organizations under one umbrella, the CIA offered to help M.R.P. on condition that it join Varona's Frente. The M.R.P. refused. The M.R.P. asked that arms be dropped to guerrillas in Escambray. The CIA, say the exiles, finally agreed, but on condition that the weapons be stamped with the Frente...