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...placed the province under Premier Cyrille Adoula's central government, peace is far from restored in Katanga. Each guard post that the U.N. hands over to the central regime's Armée Nationale Congolaise seems to produce a little area of anarchy. In recent weeks, trigger-happy A.N.C. soldiers in Elisabethville have killed at least one Katangese civilian...
Kaleidoscopic Future. According to some psychiatrists, all three drugs are useful, but only if they are given in small doses under the strictest supervision. Then the drugs sometimes speed up psychotherapy by increasing insight, and LSD has been acclaimed as a trigger mechanism that enables many alcoholics to face the emotional bases of their addiction...
...profit. No longer. Today's new products not only take more time, effort and money to develop, but face a far shorter life at the hands of the fickle consumer. There are plenty of companies to woo him; so many firms now have fast-moving research labs and trigger-ready marketing techniques that few new products are far ahead of competing copies or improvements. "Lead time is gone," laments Du Pont Chairman Crawford Greenewalt. "There's no company so outstanding technically today that it can expect a long lead in a new discovery...
Force or Farce? As for whose finger will be on the trigger of the new surface fleet, the U.S. agrees that each participating ally will have an equal veto. For all the argument it provokes, however, the question of control is largely academic; the fingers would be unanimous. "Do you really believe that Europe will want to shoot this thing off without being sure that the major U.S. force would be used?" asked a U.S. strategist. "Considering it as a second strike force, the semantics of voting becomes irrelevant...
...inlet. When they radio headquarters, they receive a command worded with discretion but ice-clear in intention; shoot the prisoner. The sergeant (Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant, a small-bore sadist, raises his pistol-but he too cannot pull the trigger...