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...expressing our pleasure in meeting you and our pleasure in the honor you have done our country." Kennedy also presided over the Rose Garden presentation of a Distinguished Service Medal to recently retired Air Force General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., who led the first B-29 bomber raid on Tokyo during World War II. Just before the affair began, Kennedy spotted a clutch of U.S. Senators in the crowd. He introduced a couple of Democrats by their last names, suddenly saw Republican Barry Goldwater and yelled, "Barry...
...capital of San'a when his horse, being led down a dusty street, kicked a Yemeni government official, resulting in the arrest of both groom and horse. U.N. planes are regularly fired on (none has been downed so far), and last month a Russian-made Egyptian Ilyushin jet bomber attacking Najran inside Saudi Arabia nearly scored a direct hit on a U.N. platoon. Getting into the act, the Russians have sent in at least 900 workmen and technicians, who are constructing a new jet airport north of San'a. Recently, the Russians threw an inquiring U.N. inspector...
...Defense Department hurriedly suppressed the work, ordered Power not to permit its publication. In 1960 Power raised President Eisenhower's hackles by damning the Administration's defense budget as perilously inadequate. Last year Power clashed with the Kennedy Administration over its foot-dragging on the B70 bomber...
...remembered virtually everything ever written on nuclear weaponry and strategy. Missouri's air-minded Senator Stuart Symington has called him "one of the world's two foremost authorities on strategic airpower"-the other being Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay. At 58, Powers is the oldest bomber commander still on duty; under his control are hundreds of long-range missiles and a fleet of 1,400-odd Strategic Air Command bombers that account for perhaps 90% of the free world's firepower. "You must convince the enemy that no matter what he does, he will...
...immediate touch with the President, the Joint Chiefs, and a global network of 75 SAC bases. Even his golf cart is rigged with communications gear. As commander of the 200-man, multiservice Joint Strategic Targeting Planning Staff, he is also charged with assigning targets to every bomber and guided missile in the U.S. arsenal...