Word: americans
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...Russians were quick to register an official protest. Claiming a "prescriptive right" to heights over 10,000 ft., they first warned darkly that "there may be incidents if the Americans fly above the altitude again without negotiation." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Lincoln White replied that the U.S. "has never accepted any altitude ceiling" in the air corridors. Next day the Russian "warning" was backed down to a simple statement that air collisions with Russian planes might result, added: "But that does not mean that any American aircraft would be molested or attacked." Finally Moscow got around to a diplomatic...
...London's Daily Mirror was a good deal less diplomatic in its anger over the Hercules flight and the U.S. military in general. "A new menace!" it cried. "The loudmouthed American generals . . . The peoples of the West-and of Russia and her satellites-are expected to believe that General Lauris Norstad (American general), General Nathan Twining (American general), General Thomas D. White (American general) are the only men who matter." A speech by NATO Commander Norstad opposing a thin-out of Western forces in Europe was called "a threat to the hopes of world peace." The comments before congressional...
...free world's best military news last week registered most plainly in the outraged headlines of Rome's Communist daily L'Unità: ALARMING AMERICAN REVELATIONS OF AGREEMENT FOR MISSILES IN ITALY. The Red worry was well founded. Italy, after long debate, had decided to install two squadrons of U.S. intermediate-range (1,500 miles) ballistic missiles. The news from Rome put fresh mettle into NATO, greater depth and power into the West's entire defense structure...
...hardware did much less than the Italians last week to steady the West's sometimes teetering confidence in its security. "The American people," wrote Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond, "would like nothing better than to stand up and salute a courageous, riskful and determined ally...
Coming Attractions. The International Cooperation Administration, already irked by the bestselling success of the semi-fictional The Ugly American (which describes bumbling failures of U.S. diplomats and foreign aidsters in Asian countries), has something new to worry about. Universal-International is planning to film the book in Thailand, and harried ICA pressmen can already visualize reaction of worldwide movie audiences to an almond-eyed Elizabeth Taylor or Kim Novak being pushed around by a bumptious young U.S. foreign aid boy abroad, a banality-mouthing U.S. Senator in Asia, or a potty U.S. ambassador. The moviemakers are asking for State Department...