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...heavy, obsolete M-1 rifle with the officially approved, fast-firing M-14, to replace the World War I .30-cal. machine gun with the new M60, or to come up with a tank to match the Russian T-54 now in the field. "For $5 billion worth of troop equipment," cracked one division commander last month, "I'd trade Huntsville away in a minute...
...saying. His consulate in Lhasa has the only radio link with the free world. But, for reasons of state, as well as personal inclination, Nehru was following a policy of see-no-evil, speak-no-evil regarding Red China. There were reports that he had sent additional troop re-enforcements to the Tibet border; he was known not to wish to be subjected to an influx of Tibetan refugees...
...speech a month ago, he changed his tune: "We see no reason why military contracts should be handed to foreign firms when German industry can handle them just as well." The big Henschel locomotive and truck-building firm has just contracted to make tanks, already manufactures Hispano-Suiza armored troop carriers under license. In fact, close to half of Bundeswehr procurement now benefits German firms. Germany's once huge aircraft industry has been pulled together into two big "North" and "South" industrial units, composed of such famous firms as Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Dornier. The government has already awarded them...
...last, the adventurers in the jungle town of Cuchazu have struck it rich-diamonds, diamonds, diamonds. But they never cash in. The government steps in and takes over the diggings for the state. Troops arrive to make the decree stick, and the hard-drinking prospectors, dregs of all nations, begin to talk about a revolt. When the posturing troop commander decides to execute one of his corporals for picking up some gems, a nightmarish wave of violence washes over the filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest...
After his Moscow trip, Macmillan first talked of "disengagement,"' then softened this to the possibility of a "thinning out" of troops, then of a "freeze" at existing levels, and currently the fashionable word is a "ceiling" on troop strengths. But rather than having specific proposals, Macmillan seems simply eager to have something to talk about, and to be convinced that talking is all to the good. He has even begun to speak of a "re-occurring summit''-a kind of periodically assembled global board of directors...