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...police and 15 divisions of elite troops, the ambitious policeman was in a perfect position to grab control. After tailing Beria for a few weeks, the Party Presidium realized that his coup could come any moment, and so they decided to spring the trap. Acting Party Boss Khrushchev buttonholed Marshal Kirill S. Moskalenko, then commandant of the Moscow antiaircraft defenses, asked him bluntly: "Have you some men who are willing to risk their lives?" Replied Moskalenko: "I have...
...same time, Nasser arrested leading army officers, including some close to U.A.R. commander in chief, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, an old friend considered responsible for giving Nasser bad advice during the Syrian fiasco. The army shake-up so far has brought imprisonment or house arrest to an estimated 400 officers, many of whom have been sent to El Dakhla. a sand-rimmed Alcatraz in the desert wastes of the upper Nile. There they are joined by growing numbers of civilians, imprisoned for anti-Nasser sympathies. Government spies are everywhere. One Mme. Badrawi spent half an hour at Cairo...
...earlier fact-finding missions to Viet Nam, Taylor's mission was to be the final, decisive survey of the situation before the U.S. decides what course to take to save its ally. Holed up in Bangkok at week's end for talks with Thailand's Premier Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who fears that his country may be next if South Viet Nam falls, Taylor did not wait for his scheduled return to the U.S. on Nov. 3, shot off his impressions to Kennedy with the promise of a more complete and detailed report later. Among Taylor...
Tanks Face Tanks. Next day, while hundreds of West Berliners watched anxiously, tension mounted. Irwin Firestone. Russian-speaking liaison officer on the staff of the Provost Marshal, moved through Checkpoint Charlie in a blue Taunus, escorted by three Jeeps filled with troops wearing bulletproof vests, while tanks idled their engines at the white line that marked the border. "I hope they are not going to start shooting," said a youthful Vopo. After a five-minute trip, Firestone returned, flashed his headlights in a signal, was again escorted by Jeeps to West Berlin...
Some of the worst nonsense ever spoken about Red China is being spread by a man who commands an audience because of his title and past record: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 73. On British TV and in the press last week, Monty was bubbling with excitement "about his September tour of Red China. In the Sunday Times, he reported that he could find "no evidence'' that the Chinese people were becoming tired or disillusioned. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Monty reported: "Talk of large-scale famine, of grim want, of apathy...