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Fortnight ago, everything was ready. Hoare's plan was to send a diversionary column of 100 mercenaries under Major Alastair Wicks up the road from Albertville in the south while his main assault force-160 men-stormed ashore from an "invasion fleet" composed of one ancient gunboat, the lake steamer Urundi, two barges and five patrol boats. His code name for the mission was "Operation Banzai...
...combatants. Since 1945 the nations of the world have almost doubled in number, from 68 to 127. Each new country has its own self-interest, its own power of decision and-thanks to the cold war and the resulting supplies of weapons and military training-its own armed forces. Alastair Buchan of London's Institute for Strategic Studies points out that there are more military men acting as political leaders than at any time in the 20th century." He cites Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Burma's Ne Win Thai land's Thanom Kittikachorn, Egypt...
...ultimately conceivable, as Robert Kennedy speculated in a recent speech, that "nuclear weapons might be used between Greeks and Turks over Cyprus, between Arabs and Israelis over the Gaza Strip, between India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch." Defense experts such as Alastair Buchan, director of Britain's respected Institute of Strategic Studies, take a more sober view of the possibilities of proliferation but foresee, nonetheless, that the number of nuclear powers may well grow from five to 15 in the next 20 years...
...around 1435, it was recognized by its heraldic symbols as a Book of Hours for Catherine of Cleves, noble daughter of a powerful Dutch duke. For more than a century, no one questioned its completeness. It wound up in 1958 in the Guennol collection, owned by Long Island Investor Alastair B. Martin...
Pilkington's postwar expansion and its plunge into float glass has been directed by Alastair's cousin, Sir Harry Pilkington, 58, a tall, craggy Cambridge graduate who bicycles to work. Previous Pilkington chairmen have had Httle interest in affairs outside their company, but Sir Harry is a director of the Bank of England, has served as head of government commissions that have investigated everything from TV programs to dentists' fees. He believes that a glassmaker should have a window on the world...