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...that is just the beginning. Europe has decided for the future to invest more in nuclear power than in any other means of producing electricity, is on the threshold of making major purchases of equipment. Such U.S. giants as General Electric and Westinghouse, which won an early beachhead for their reactors, are now being strongly challenged by big equipment makers in Britain, Germany, France and Sweden, which claim that their reactors are more economical and efficient than the U.S. models...
...troops were soon besting the Viet Cong in fire fights from Chu Lai to An Khe. The 34,000 marines in Viet Nam boast a 5-1 kill ratio over the enemy, have spread their original beachhead until now they control 400 sq. mi. of territory. When a bad bit of intelligence unloaded the 101st Screaming Eagles from their helicopters right into a battalion of Viet Cong near An Khe, the Eagles fought hand-to-mortar until the field was theirs. Soon the increasing aggressiveness of American ground troops everywhere was adding yet another dimension of fear and uncertainty...
Same Leopard. Nationalist China is worried about being forgotten in the press of other Asian problems facing the U.S. Chiang argued again last week that the Nationalists should seek a beachhead on the Chinese mainland before Chinese Communist nuclear strength grows any greater. "You can never expect a leopard to change its spots," he said. "The only change we can visualize is the return of our government to the mainland." The U.S. gave him no encouragement; it opposes any such move as of now. But U.S. officials consider Chiang a capable heir to President Chiang, and they are pleased that...
...interests of keeping things quiet, Kennedy vetoed the original plan-approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff- for the exiles to land at Trinidad, a town on the southern coast of Cuba, 178 miles southeast of Havana with, as Schlesinger says, the "advantages of a harbor, a defensible beachhead, remoteness from Castro's main army, and easy access to the protective Escambray Mountains." But Kennedy thought a Trinidad landing would be "too spectacular...
...results of this cancellation are in dispute. Schlesinger says that the "second strike might have protracted the stand on the beachhead from three days to ten." Sorensen writes that "there is no reason to believe that Castro's air force, having survived the first air strike and been dispersed into hiding, would have been knocked out by the second one." But Richard M. Bissell Jr., at the time of the Bay of Pigs the CIA deputy who planned the operation, takes another view -as do most professional military men. Now a United Aircraft Corp. executive, Bissell argued last week...