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...that he awaits with eagerness. Next year will mark the centennial of the Meiji Restoration, the year that Japan broke out of its feudal, introspective cocoon and entered the real world. Since that time, the four islands of Nippon have moved from an era of swordplay and armor to one of supertankers and transistors...
...Mobile Armor. The Arabs well remember that the Israeli army rolled smartly over Egyptian forces on the Sinai Peninsula in 1956 without even being fully mobilized. Though not given to formalities-"If the soldiers feel like saluting, they may if they want to," says one officer-the Israelis are superbly trained and motivated fighters. Israel can command some 250,000 men (v. Syria's 60,000) within 72 hours. Under Premier David Ben-Gurion, the nation decided that its security was best assured by armored units and paratroops capable of striking deep into enemy territory. The army is thus...
...book begins with Marshall's appointment as Chief of Staff on Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler's armor moved into Poland, and ends on Dec. 31, 1942, with his 62nd birthday party (sherry and cake) in the Pentagon-and with Rommel still in Africa and the Red army just hanging on at Stalingrad. Between those dates lay a Pikes Peak of paper. This has been industriously mined and smelted down by his official historian, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, combat historian in World War II and currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation...
...step in weakening the chain of loyalty that binds the Jesuits to the Pope. Paul, apparently, was worried about this too. Equally disturbing, in his view, was another suggestion that the Society abandon the rule of a compulsory hour each day for mental prayers; Paul called prayer "the indispensable armor for the soldier of Christ...
Trimming Fat. Last week President Ongania was acting more like an armor-plated hare than a tortoise. To encourage exports so that the country could pay a $700 million foreign debt, the new President devalued the peso by 16% to about 250 for a U.S. dollar. In a nationwide speech, he advised that "the style today will be to export everything possible and to consume what's left." He even began negotiations with private companies to renew the oil contracts that the previous administration had canceled...