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...Khan Noon charged that Russian military aircraft had been allowed to land in Indian Kashmir, and added, "I consider the whole of India to be a Russian air base." India's press countered this attack with the claim that the U.S. Air Force is carrying out a "feverish buildup" in the part of Kashmir held by Pakistan...
...embassy in Amman put on a big propaganda campaign about the airlift of U.S. arms to Jordan. This may have reassured some, but it led other Arabs to conclude that the big powers were shifting their cold war to the Middle East and developing a tit-for-tat buildup that was bound to lead to a dramatic showdown...
Over a Page One cut of a tweedy, utterly English six-footer named Chris Powell, the headline in London's Daily Sketch trumpeted: WIN THIS MAN! HE'S A WORLD SENSATION! After a four-day buildup and a spate of pictures showing Winnable Powell, with a pipe, a monocle and a succession of simpering show girls, the tabloid Sketch (circ. 1,283,000) finally broke the secret. This "elegant, enterprising, experienced man in a million," said the Sketch, would be rotated-for assignment-among the letter writers who could most convincingly explain what they wanted...
Without Nightmares? To Administration ears, Kennedy's Algeria speech sounded like troublesome meddling, possibly part of the buildup of his stock as a Democratic presidential nominee in 1960. Secretary of State Dulles at his news conference replied that he would be "very sorry" to see the Algerian crisis, with its "great difficulty and complexity," become a U.S. problem. And "if anyone is interested in going after colonialism," said Dulles, he should look to the enslaved nations behind the Iron Curtain. Added Dwight Eisenhower at his midweek press conference: the "best role...
...Whole Book. Besides these three, Khrushchev removed a man once regarded as his protégé: leonine, lug-eared Dmitry Shepilov, 51, ex-Foreign Minister responsible for the disastrous Soviet buildup in Egypt. For good measure Khrushchev threw out a couple of technocrat Deputy Premiers who had got in the way of his industrial planning: Maxim Saburov and Mikhail Pervukhin...