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...Chinese Nationalists are resigned to a new U.S. attitude toward their heavy troop buildup on the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which Kennedy in a TV debate last October pronounced "not strategically defensible, not essential to the defense of Formosa." Middle East Arabs, annoyed that Kennedy put two Jews in his Cabinet and nary an Arab, angrily noted that Kennedy told a campaign audience that U.S. policy aims at ending the state of war between Israel and the Arab states. To Arabs, "ending the state of war" means acquiescing to the permanent existence of Israel, which is something that...
...Russians, Pathet Lao and Viet Minh" had just invaded from North Viet Nam near the town of Ban Le. But when pressed, Information Minister Bouavan had to admit that he had no idea where Ban Le was. All that seemed to be going on for sure was a buildup by both sides around the Plaine des Jarres, the strategic central plateau captured by pro-Communist Captain Kong Le a week earlier with the help of an airlift by Russian Ilyushin 14s (TIME...
...greater threat than missiles for a while yet), plus safeguarding Strategic Air Command bombers through dispersal and hardening of bases. The better prepared the U.S. is to fight back and recuperate after a nuclear attack, the less likely the Russians are to attack. In addition, Kahn advocates a buildup of conventional military forces, armed with non-nuclear weapons, to lessen the U.S.'s dependence on nuclear retaliatory power. For the long run, with the rapid development of ever more fearsome military technologies and the spread of nuclear weapons to smaller nations, Kahn thinks that no feasible combination of unilateral...
...endorsed Burke's idea, have since concentrated a large part of the U.S.-Latin American military program on antisubmarine warfare. This fiscal year the U.S. allotted $9,000,000 worth of aid to Latin American navies (v. $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 annually prior to the buildup), will spend $5,000,000 to train crews. Latin navies have been supplied with no sonar-equipped destroyer escorts, destroyers, minesweepers and subs under the program, and plans call for 18 more in the next few years. Argentina (which, like Brazil, has a modernized, British-built aircraft carrier) is organizing...
Camelot (book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; based on The Once and Future King by T. H. White) could scarcely fail to suffer from its huge pre-Broadway buildup, its reported $3,000.000 advance sale and, above all, the comparison with its Lerner-Loewe predecessor, My Fair Lady. But Camelot suffers from something more than ballyhoo; its real trouble is not its failing to live up to extravagant expectations but its not living up to itself...