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...There is grave danger to the future of Canada and all Canadians. What is at stake is the very fact of Canada. The clash of English and French could destroy the country, if permitted to deepen." So said a ten-man royal commission last week after 18 months spent examining Canada's most pressing problem-the deep division between French-and English-speaking Canadians...
...world (behind the U.S. and Russia), its 2,900 planes are mostly obsolete MIG-15s and 17s. Western experts prediet that China will soon start turning out a few advanced MIG-19 and 21 jets on its own, but production will be slow and light. In any air clash with U.S. Navy and Air Force jets over Southeast Asia, Mao's planes would certainly be swept from the skies in a matter of days. Even the Chinese Nationalists, flying slow F-86 Sabre jets armed with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, were able to shoot down 32 Red Chinese...
Yellow Fire. The first clash occurred when General Kouprasith, returning to his headquarters east of Vientiane, crashed his car through a "blue" roadblock; a hail of bullets killed three...
...Chicago's Hans Morgenthau, who declares that the U.S. must decide whether its basic aim is the containment of Red China. If so, this cannot be done by such peripheral actions as the Viet Nam war, he says, unless the U.S. is willing to risk a direct clash with China. Also, "you have to recognize that once China becomes a modern industrial nation, she will have become the most powerful nation on earth. Faced with that, the question is whether we should wage preventive war." While he is "not prepared to answer" that fateful question, he feels that...
Spectacular as it was, the clash over central Laos last week was more important for what it revealed. U.S. officials have long said that the possibility of hitting Communist supply lines in Laos was only under study. In fact, after last month's "demi-coup" in South Viet Nam, the U.S. loudly announced that discussions about expanding the war had been suspended. Now it is known that Washington has "-" been carrying out air strikes in Laos since last year-a significant escalation of the anti-Communist struggle in Indo-China...