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NATO as a whole has real problems. The U.S. is the only major power to come close to fulfilling its troop commitments to NATO. As a result, instead of having the agreed-upon number of 28 divisions, NATO has but 22, and many of these are so undermanned that NATO's fighting strength is equal only to 16 or 17 divisions. Against these, the Soviet Union has 20 Russian and six German divisions poised in East Germany, could throw another 20 or more divisions into action within a week's time. NATO is especially weak on the northern...
...armies advancing through Poland (see map). On April 12 armored units of Lieut. General William H. Simpson's Ninth U.S. Army reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg and Tangermünde, and thus came within 60 miles of Berlin. At that moment, Marshal Georgy Zhukov's Russian troops were bogged down 35 miles east of the German capital; they had been struggling for two months against the savage opposition of Hitler's Eastern Front armies to gain a foothold across the Oder River. Simpson asked if he should push on to liberate Berlin. Instead, he was told...
...Member nations of the U.N. should set aside for emergency use special military units, ready at all times for action under the U.N.'s banner. If all the U.N.'s 99 members cooperate, troop units would be ready in every part of the world to rush into troubled areas and keep the peace...
...divided city. Animated lighting depicts its air, waterway, rail and highway routes to the free world. Large panels of photographs show facets of life in West Berlin. Motion pictures catch the excitement of recent events: the cheers of welcome to Vice President Lyndon Johnson and to U.S. troop reinforcements; the erection of sections of the 25-mile wall; the flight to the West of one East German soldier when his officers' backs were turned; the Soviet water cannons spouting at jeering West Berliners. Accompanying the display is a recorded commentary by Mayor Brandt on the history of the Berlin...
...rape and kill the women. The captain sends out a patrol commanded by a youthful officer who has just seen the elegant lieutenant, merely for the hell of it, steal his girl. With all the suption gone out of him, he blunders when he bivouacs and his troop is wiped...