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...long-run future of the cold war. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced the merging of the Army's combat-ready Stateside troops and Stateside troops and Stateside units of Air Force's Tactical Air Command. The new joint command is designed to speed up the airlift of U.S. troops to overseas trouble spots and to guarantee them close aerial support once they swing into action. In particular, the command will aim at fighting limited, brush-fire wars wherever the Communists might strike a match around the world...
...close tactical support when it got there. But the Army and the Air Force all too often failed to work well together; air-ground teamwork sagged badly, despite the bloody lesson of World War II that the rifleman needed help from the fighter-bomber. Unable to count on TAC airlift for practice jumps, paratroop commanders talked wryly of chartering their own transports...
STREET signs in the lobby of the TIME & LIFE Building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas point up the close ties Americans have with severed Berlin. They read: Platz der Luftbrücke (Airlift Place), Clayallee (named for General Lucius D. Clay), Washingtonplatz (for the first U.S. President). The signs, brought from West Berlin, point to an exhibit which opened last week in the TIME & LIFE Reception Center. Americans' heightened interest in Berlin today was evident at once in a flow of 150 to 200 persons visiting the exhibit each hour...
Back in Washington for consultation, tough old General Lucius D. Clay, the 1948 airlift boss, who is now the President's personal representative in Berlin, gloomed that the situation is "perhaps the most tense, most critical that it has been in the city's history...
...Instead, he formed a new National Patrice Lumumba Party and began orating against the U.N. ("hostile to the Congo"). Last week his soldiers, apparently feeling that it is open season on all Western whites, roughed up U.S. Consul Thomas A. Cassilly. All the U.N. could think of was to airlift 350 Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville to reinforce the U.N. force of 450 already there...