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Risky Options. If Pyongyang decides not to cool it, however, the options open to the U.S. all involve serious risks. One is to storm Yonghung Bay and either retrieve Pueblo from Wonsan or destroy it-though a commando-style raid of the sort might involve heavy casualties. Seizing a North Korean ship or two would hardly be worth the effort inasmuch as the biggest, most attractive vessels Pyongyang has afloat are two 500-ton Russian-built mine sweepers. A blockade of Wonsan would mean cutting the Soviet submarine fleet off from one of its principal Far Eastern ports. Nabbing...
...veteran of the Haganah, the Jewish underground army at the time of the British mandate, Rabin also served as a British commando behind Vichy French lines in World War II. As Israeli chief of staff for the past four years, he developed a highly motivated officer corps, modernized the tank force, and maintained a hair-trigger state of readiness. Last week Eshkol escalated his campaign a bit further by designating Rabin the new Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Eshkol seems to be grooming Rabin for appointment to the Defense Ministry. Then, during the campaign, he will have on his side...
...unacceptable affront to sovereignty and protocol. It was both peremptory and insulting, addressing itself to "the British government's utterly hideous and ferocious features of fascist imperialism." Britain's man in Peking, Charge d'Affaires Donald Hopson, 52, a cool, much-decorated World War II commando offi cer, simply refused to send it to London. Peking, of course, broadcast the texts anyway. It demanded the release of 53 imprisoned Hong Kong Communists within 48 hours and the re opening of three outlawed Red tabloids in the troubled crown colony-or else the Chinese would take unspecified action...
Kaffir-a-Day. Zambesi Club "meres" are white Rhodesians and South Africans from Colonel "Mad Mike" Hoare's Fifth Commando-a unit that left the Congo last April after stamping out a Communist-instigated rebellion of Simba warriors. Other mercenaries include Sahara-scorched French veterans of the O.A.S. uprising in Algeria, tough British colonial troops from the old Indian army, and unashamedly racist Rhodesians who joke about "sending a Kaffir a day to heaven." In the Congo, they earned the nickname Les Affreux (the Terrible Ones). Scores of them can be found in the bars of Johannesburg and Salisbury...
...weed out saboteurs-a task immensely complicated by the fact that perhaps one-third of Egypt's estimated 150,000-man army in the Sinai seems to have melted away into the Arab communities of the peninsula. There are also the restive Gaza refugees, who emerged as a commando army during the fighting and afterward slipped quietly back into their Casbah-like warrens of tinroofed shacks. To maintain order, Israel has had to keep about 80% of its 230,000 army reservists in uniform...