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From the change in government, the West can probably expect an increase in Russian heavy industry, and a corresponding drive by the Communist Party to exert more pressure on the Russian peasantry, Shulman stated. He did not think that this necessarily indicated any immediate change in Russian foreign policy...
...Because of the dispersion of the force's ships and the range of its weapons, such a carrier force could exert a tight and exclusive control over an area of 60,000 square miles-the six New England states rearranged into a circle 275 miles in diameter . . . Nuclear warheads would be available for missiles fired against large bomber formations . . . Nuclear anti-submarine weapons would be available...
...spite of occasional difficulties, the fraternities do not exert a particularly oppressive influence on the college community as a whole. In fact, they probably figure very little in the thinking of the non-fraternity man. While it would be inaccurate to say that anyone who wants to can get into a fraternity--there are undoubtedly disappointments on the part of some students--the average independent is likely to be an independent by choice and is very largely indifferent to the whole fraternity system...
...there much evidence that Mendès intended to exert his dynamism to press really hard for EDC; he remained vulnerable, in the deathly climate of Geneva, to Communist pressure against the No. 1 objective of U.S. cold war strategy: the rearmament of Germany. "In Mendès-France's office in the Quai d'Orsay," cabled TIME correspondent André Laguerre, "I could hear the worn old cry: 'We must do nothing brutal to provoke the Communists...
...Hanoi, TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin asked the Vietnamese governor if he would leave. "If I stay here with the Communists," the governor replied, pointing skyward, "I shall stay forever-up there." Then what would happen to Bacninh's anti-Communist villagers? "We are lost. The Viet Minh will exert pressure against the families and the village elders. It will be easy for the Communists. They are the victors. Who can resist the victors...