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...morale-damaging order calling for a cut in the number of military dependents abroad (to slow down the dollar drain), and thus won the undying, somebody-back-there-likes-us gratitude of the troops. Polaris got a new step-up, and a fast order for new troop-transport planes shot out of the E Ring like a bullet. Publicly McNamara stumbled only once-and that was to his credit. In early February he casually told Washington newsmen that he did not think that the U.S. stood in any danger from a missile gap. Since the missile gap had been...
...Marine Brigade, aboard a U.S. Navy transport bound for maneuvers off the U.S. West Coast, was ordered to wheel around and return to station in Okinawa. The U.S. lifted 16 helicopters to the Laotian forces, deposited some 400 marines, many of them veterans of the 1958 Lebanon landings, at a base just across the border at Udon, Thailand. Around the clock, U.S. C-130 cargo transports lumbered into Bangkok, disgorging guns and ammunition for transfer to the anti-Communist Laotian troops...
...More spending for non-nuclear weapons and equipment, including antisubmarine warfare capabilities, airlift, sea transport, and ship rehabilitation and modernization...
...Africa. Its author was John Tettegah, Redlining boss of Ghana's Trades Union Congress, who has sold Nkrumah on the idea of Communist-style unionism, and is trying to muscle in on union movements in Nigeria and other African countries. Another leftist at the top: Minister of Transport Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who made a deal with Moscow for six Ilyushin airliners. Swirling uncertainly among the blacks is British Marxist Geoffrey Bing, who, as Nkrumah's Attorney General, designed the Preventive Detention Act under which more than 100 opposition politicians have been jailed without trial...
High over the jungle green hills of Laos, unmarked U.S. transport planes loosed red and white parachutes that floated down the supplies of war: ammunition, clothing and food. Only a few miles away, across a canyon or a hill. Russian Ilyushins bounced onto rough turf runways bearing howitzers, mortars, assault guns and Communist technicians to man them. Among all the crises around the world, only in the remote and rugged northern Laos were Communist and anti-Communist armies lined...