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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colorado Springs. NORAD also must react defensively to what it sees, and give warning to U.S. and Canadian citizens to head for their shelters-if they have any. Established four years ago, NORAD has recently acquired new techniques to meet the growing threats. It can now detect almost anything bigger than a bird in the air over some 15 million sq. mi. from Iceland to Midway...
...Predecessor MacArthur on the whole did a good job in a difficult period. Reischauer's own stiff tests still lie ahead. One of them: defense, U.S. occupation of Okinawa is a continuing source of friction in Japan, which wants to resume full sovereignty (it may soon get a bigger role in the island's administration). Though Japan spends only 1.4% of its national income on defense and relies on the U.S. for its protection, U.S. airbases and 45,000 servicemen (fewest since the occupation) inevitably stir resentment in the world's most densely populated country. U.S. resumption...
...place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...
While the U.S. almost certainly will resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere as soon as it can get ready, one ticklish problem has remained unresolved in the two months since President Kennedy ordered the preparations to proceed: with the blasts growing bigger and the world more worried, where can the tests be held...
...professors get up and deliver the standard lecture on the Stamp Act, as thought it had anything to do with the volunteer's needs," Dennis said of the quality of training at some of the bigger schools. "The volunteers won't take any baloney. We're trying to get our training away from the standard lecture approach...