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...settlement in Europe must be accomplished this year," he said. And after the U.S.S.R. signs its peace treaty with puppet East Germany, the East German government can cut off the supply corridors to West Berlin if it pleases. Any Western attempt to force passage to West Berlin "would mean war-and thermonuclear war at that...
French & Indians. There was a moral of sorts in the Laotian situation that said much about all other cold-war fronts. Political, economic and military experts were all agreed that chaotic, mountainous little Laos was the last place in the world to fight a war-and they were probably right. "It would be like fighting the French and Indian War all over again," said one military man. But why was Laos the new Southeast Asian battleground...
Replied Minnesota's spectacled Walter Judd: "The question is what is to happen in our nation's interest. Sometimes we act as if we were not at war-and in the most perilous situation in which the U.S. has ever been-partly because it does not look like war. Therefore we do not go all out to do the things necessary...
...summit conference, and, far more important, their differences over such basic free-world policies as Berlin and the unification of Germany. The leaders of East and West had last met at the summit at Geneva in 1955. Hopes were high then for an end to the cold war-and because those hopes were shattered by Soviet obduracy and Khrushchev's hippodroming, the phony spirit of Geneva may have done more harm than good. In 1959 the U.S. moves toward the summit with more modest hopes. The chances of any harm's being done are therefore correspondingly less...
...Pipelines. In these defiant words, with their faded Churchillian echoes, Egypt's strongman prepared his people for guerrilla war-and did not add what his words implied: that his army and air force had been badly mauled. The same day, the chief priests of Cairo's famed El Azhar Mosque proclaimed a jihad, or holy war, against Britain and France...