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...Sixth Fleet moved in, a sweptwing, twin jet flew in from the Bulgarian coast, and came down low over the massed invasion fleet. Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown radioed his carrier force in the clear: "A possibly hostile aircraft is approaching your area. If it menaces your formation, use sidewinders [air-to-air missiles carried beneath a plane's wings] to prevent photography." But before hastily launched U.S. Navy delta wing Sky rays could catch it, the twin jet scooted home to Communist territory...
...years, and both sides know it. But the imminent arrival of U.S. nuclear missiles at British and other NATO bases represents a turn of the screw that tightens still further the ring of containment around Russia, from Murmansk in the north to satellite bases as far south as the Bulgarian border...
...fighting for its life against a powerful army of Communist guerrillas led by wiry, mustachioed General Markos Vafiades, a onetime tobacco worker who had seen regular service in the Greek cavalry. U.S. military aid was pouring into Athens, but Soviet arms were also pouring across the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders to help the guerrillas. The situation had the makings of a minor war on the pattern that was to become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos was reported "seriously...
What had happened was only discovered later: in the big split between Tito and Stalin that year, General Markos had stubbornly continued to use both Yugoslav and Bulgarian bases, i.e., refused to take sides. Result: Greek Communist Boss Nicholas Zachariades charged him with "Trotskyite opportunistic behavior" and bounced him out of the party as a "fainthearted deserter from the popular democratic movement." Top Yugoslav sources guessed that Markos' illness was really a small round hole in the head...
Inside Game. The Communist play of his speech had a significance of its own. Both the Hungarian radio and Polish press carried excerpts from it. Moscow did not, nor did the Bulgarian, Rumanian or Czechoslovak radios. The Italian Communist press featured it; the French Communist press attacked it. This unusual pattern was an indication of where the tough line was in control, and where...