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...Mydans the second. They came back talking of their struggles in renting Jeeps, planes, sailboats and motorboats to make their rounds, and insisting on what a hard job it was to investigate the soft life. They got little sympathy in New York except when describing the process of taking aerial photographs by leaning out the open door of a small plane as it made tight turns...
...positions at the tree line and along a canal bordering the paddies; each time they were driven back. Overhead, government planes pounded the Viet Cong with bombs and napalm, but the Communists did not break. "My God, we got a fix on one machine-gun position and made 15 aerial runs on it," said a U.S. adviser. "Every time we thought we had him, and every time that damned gunner came right back up, firing...
...deliberate understatement. For months trie Cuban skies have belonged to U S photo planes-soaring, diving, circling appearing and disappearing on swift, unexpected tangents. Diplomats may still argue about on-site inspection of Cuban missile bases, but the question is almost academic. Under the prying eyes of U S aerial cameras. Cuba lies as exposed as a nude in a swimming pool...
...there is still not even a semblance of on-site inspection to make sure that the U.S.S.R.'s nuclear arsenal has really been taken away and not just hidden from aerial view. There is still no guarantee that another Soviet buildup will not begin. A full division of 10,000 Russian soldiers remains in Cuba, armed with automatic weapons, artillery and antiaircraft missiles -and jeeringly painting their regimental insignia on island boulders to be seen by U.S. reconnaissance flyers...
...stalemate. Such a stalemate-with the U.S. obviously coming out ahead in the direct cold-war confrontation-seems to suit some Administration officials fine. Cuba remains a Communist beachhead 90 miles off the U.S.'s southern shore. But the U.S. is continuing-and will keep up-its aerial reconnaissance flights; until its demands are met, it need not pledge against an invasion of Cuba. That keeps things open for future action...