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...other hand, was determined to dramatize its concern over Syria. The U.S. embassy in Amman put on a big propaganda campaign about the airlift of U.S. arms to Jordan. This may have reassured some, but it led other Arabs to conclude that the big powers were shifting their cold war to the Middle East and developing a tit-for-tat buildup that was bound to lead to a dramatic showdown...
...counterpunch was to make a display of speeding arms delivery to Syria's Arab neighbors. At week's end eight C124 Globemasters were standing by in Athens and Libya to airlift U.S. weapons, including 106-mm. recoilless rifles, to Jordan. And determined not to let Syria's new pro-Russian regime lull everyone to sleep with sweet talk, Washington did what it could to make plain its concern about Syria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). This was a clear declaration of intent to defend vital U.S. interests in the Mideast, but so far the initiative there remained with...
...Army figures, will save an enormous amount of fuel, which accounts for three-quarters of the cargo carried to an Arctic base. This alone is a big advantage, but to have military value, any installation on the icecap needs good supply routes to the outside world. Airlift is too expensive and dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and cover the metal with...
...financed DEW line cost $500 million and more than a score of lives, mostly fliers who crashed in the gigantic airlift of men and materials to the several dozen radar sites. Last week the main builder, Western Electric Co., turned the line over to International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., which will operate it. Manning the remote outposts are 1,000 technicians, nearly 80% of them Canadians. The DEW-liners are confident that no invading aircraft can pass them undetected. In preliminary trials, even birds set the alarm bells ringing...
Died. Louise Schroeder, 70, mild-mannered spinster who gained international admiration as Berlin's Acting Lord Mayor (1947-48) during months of the taut, East-West political contest for the city, climaxed by the Russian blockade and the Allied airlift that broke it; of a heart attack; in Berlin...