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...Schecter bounced about the front in single-engined planes. Correspondent James Wilde narrowly escaped death when mortar fragments riddled his MG during the battle for Vientiane last December. Fortnight ago he wangled his way into the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres for a startling report on the Communist arms buildup there (TIME, March 10). Karnow himself talked to a vast collection of sources: princes, diplomats, generals, former Viet Minh officers and Pathet Lao guerrillas...
...Russians had reason to be angry. Correspondent Wilde brought out with him a point-by-point documentation of the ominous arms buildup in northern Laos. It was a rare account of just how world Communism stage-manages a "people's revolution" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...defense policy, the Administration has decided on a buildup of non-nuclear forces to lessen the U.S.'s dependence on nuclear weapons and broaden its range of possible military action in future crises (see Defense), but the buildup is going to proceed pretty slowly. Confronted by an already massive budget. President Kennedy has decided to hold the increase in defense spending to less than $2 billion...
Tactically, the Kennedy-ordered buildup of guerrilla training will add a new arm to the U.S.'s limited-war capability, and potential strength to small nations threatened with Communist infiltration. The project opens up the hazard that enthusiastic anti-Communist guerrillas may take off on a limited war of their own without an American by-your-leave. But this hazard is small compared with the value of training Communist-threatened allies in countering the Communists' favorite infiltration tactic. One new project in the works with an eye cocked toward Castro's Cuba: a branch school for counterguerrilla...
...laughed at the long-popular theory that a high jumper can go no more than one foot above his own head, last month leaped 7 ft. 4½ in. in Leningrad to set an unofficial world indoor record, top Thomas' indoor best by 1½ in. In the buildup for last week's contest, Boston U.'s public relations chief quoted Thomas as saying of Brumel's jump: "I want to see it before I'll believe...