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...Will To Fight. At Ankara's Esenboga military airfield, Ike was welcomed by a surging crowd of photographers, an honor guard of the Turkish army and a corps of diplomats who had braved the razor winds to shake his hand. "Turkey," he told them, "has proven herself to be a democratic country [with] a very important strategic position in the Atlantic Treaty...
...missed a curve, plunged into a ravine, killed the driver and seven passengers. At Teresópolis, northeast of Rio, rain-loosened mud and rocks thundered down a hill, burying a freight train, a warehouse and four railhands. A Panair do Brasil DC-3 undershot the Uberlãndia airfield, 500 miles north of Rio, and crashed into a clump of trees, killing nine and injuring 23. But of all the week's disasters, the famed Rio Carnival was the worst. Rio's festival record: 22 dead and 4,612 injured-including 196 hit by cars, 330 tumbled...
Which, General Turner asked, is the true statement? Will you or will you not enlarge your airfield capacity during an armistice? The Reds refused a straightforward answer...
...observation mission should also be dispatched to that area now to investigate the reports of troop concentrations and airfield construction. Such a mission would act as an impartial collective witness to any actual invasion, enabling it to cut through the inevitable flurry of charges and counter-charges...
...pilot asked U.S.A.F. for a bearing and course back to Venice, later sent a final message: "Low on fuel. Not sure I can make Venice or emergency landing." Red fighters evidently got on the trail, forced the 6026 down at a Soviet airfield at Papa, Hungary. There, after seizing the map kits, chutes, blankets and field radios which all U.S. transports carry for emergency landings, the Reds accused the crew of "criminal intentions" and held them. Hungary ignored two State Department notes demanding the release of the flyers and the plane. Apparently the next step is blackmail: within...