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...died last month of cancer. His appointment abruptly ended speculation that the Kremlin, over army objections, was about to turn the defense ministry over to a civilian. Like Malinovsky, Grechko is a hardbitten, hard-drinking professional soldier who worked his way up through the ranks to become a marshal in the Red army. As Malinovsky's stand-in for the past ten years, he became proficient in the art of rocket rattling, in 1963 even claimed that "Soviet rockets can reach Polaris bases no mat ter where they are." For the past seven years, Grechko has doubled as supreme...
...will suffer most from the reaction to Vietnam will be those who had the greatest doubts about it. And generally speaking, those who have spoken most fluently and feelingly about the defense of liberty, freedom and Marshal Ky's version of democracy in Saigon have never shown the slightest passion for these principles in Birmingham or Harlem. Needless to say I do not include the President in this observation, but I do urge that he require all friends of Vietnam democracy to do their boot training in Birmingham...
...Eisler's anthem speaks of an East Germany "risen from ruins and turned toward the future." In fact, Ulbricht has turned his country toward the East-for that is where he sees the future. He regards the Soviet leash as his regime's lifeline. A Soviet field marshal commands East Germany's 200,000-man army, its 600-plane air force and its 200-ship navy. The Soviet ambassador frequently sits in on meetings of Ulbricht's Politburo. More than 72% of East Germany's exports flow eastward, and East German tourists generally head...
...Died. Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, 68, the Soviet Union's Minister of Defense since 1957; of cancer; in Moscow. Short, grizzled, gruff, Malinovsky looked like the original Russian bear-and played the part to perfection. As a heavy-fisted soldier, he took part in the World War II defense of Stalingrad, commanded the advance through Rumania and Hungary to Vienna, and finally Russia's "one-week war" against Japan. As a Communist, he was the perfect, unquestioning Party member, who survived all purges, obediently reined in the army when Khrushchev opted for fewer guns and more butter, then...
...going and where he has come from. He visits the Alamo; three pages on the history of Texas. On the Alamo's wall is a plaque recalling the battle of Thermopylae: two pages on the history of Greece. Sadler gets tattooed: a page noting everyone from Field Marshal Montgomery to Winston Churchill's mother who had a tattoo...