Word: antiaircraft
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...embarrassments last week. U.S. newspapers reported an intensive buildup of Soviet strength on the island. According to some accounts, upwards of 20,000 Soviet troops are still in Cuba. Construction of underground depots, heavy pillboxes, hangars and runways is moving ahead rapidly under Russian supervision. The island's antiaircraft missile defenses are being strengthened. Cuba is virtually under Russian occupation. In Havana's harbor lie a dozen ships flying the hammer and sickle. Cuban shoppers buy Russian canned foods. Plaques and pictures praise "martyrs of the proletariat." Tens of thousands of children are being indoctrinated with Communist propaganda...
...sending the U.S. destroyer Forrest Sherman on a "routine" visit to the Saudi seaport of Jidda-the hoary political device that hints of force. And, though it was laconically denied in Washington, sources in the Middle East insist that the U.S. has agreed to a Saudi request that antiaircraft batteries and radar-control equipment be sent to the oft-bombed supply depot at Najran; this, hopefully, would have a sedative effect on Egyptian air raids inside the territory of Saudi Arabia itself...
...crisp creases, steel helmets and eyes staring mechanically front. As tight arrowhead formations of Soviet-built MIG jets thundered overhead, Cubans got their first glimpse of Russian missiles: the bulky surface-to-surface variety carried by coastal patrol boats, and the grey, sharp-nosed SA-2 antiaircraft rockets that presumably shot down a U-2 reconnaissance plane two months ago. As the missiles rolled by a Cuban TV announcer gloated: "These weapons can destroy an enemy plane at its highest flight ceiling...
...missiles for 144 launchers at 24 antiaircraft rocket sites...
Nasser proudly watched a parade of Egyptian might-60 new Soviet-built T-54 tanks, antiaircraft detachments, batteries of tactical rockets, and dismissed reports that more than 10,000 Egyptians had been lost in the Yemen campaign, insisted that the actual number of Egyptian dead was only...