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Both estimates are probably way too high. Congo observers, working with the scraps of information that leak out past the iron censorship that Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has clamped on Angola, think as many as 7,000 Africans have been killed-many without reason, since probably no more than 2,000 to 3,000 natives are actively in revolt...
...indirect-cycle system, although requiring less shielding, is an extremely challenging engineering task. As an aircraft power plant, it does not appear practical for combat use. Fifteen miles of tubing carry liquid metals at temperatures up to 2,000° F., and there are 26,000 welded joints. A leak would constitute a severe hazard...
...Force partisans warn direly that the U.S. had better mobilize if it is going to scale down the threat of nuclear retaliation. In an attempt to bring the matter to a head, the Air Force leaked the Rusk memo, and it got twisted to make it sound as though Rusk favored abandoning nuclear strike power. Braced with the leak at his news conference. President Kennedy denied any lessening of emphasis on nuclear weapons ("When-if we do reach a change in our reliance on new weapons, we will make it very clear''), but affirmed that he wanted...
...White House blames Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright for prematurely leaking the ambassadorial appointments lists to the New York Times. Fulbright was an early Kennedy choice for Secretary of State before he was shot down as a segregationist. One result of the leak was to stir up a newspaper ruckus over controversial appointments before approval had been received from the foreign ministries. Principal victim: the Kennedy family's close Palm Beach friend. ex-Cuban Ambassador Earl Smith, who was politely blackballed by the Swiss government (TIME, March...
Testifying in court, the Admiralty's underwater warfare chief, Captain George Osborn Symonds, said that the work of the spy ring could have been "of highest value to a potential enemy." But British counter-intelligence had learned of a security leak at the Underwater Experimental Station last July, had had the ring under surveillance ever since. Implication was that most of the valuable information had been intercepted before it could be delivered...