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Force. Kennedy bluntly rejected the missile swap and increased the speed of the U.S. military buildup. The President considered choking Cuba's economy with a complete blockade. To knock the missiles out in a hurry, the White House discussed sabotage, commando raids, naval bombardment or a pinpoint bombing attack. And there was the strong possibility that invasion might finally be required...
With his young recruits, Bellmon successfully brought out the big Nixon vote in 1960, then set to work preparing for 1962. Like a military commander, he issued attack programs that scheduled a calendar of activities, organized "commando'' groups of workers assigned to fund raising, advertising and "reregistering" Democrats. The Republicans contracted early for most of the state's best billboard space, leaving the Democrats pretty much behind the bushes. All that remained was to select their Republican candidates-and Organizer Bellmon was the obvious choice for Governor...
...Algeria, Jews fear the onset of independence this week even more than their Christian pied-noir neighbors. Many were active supporters of the underground Secret Army; in Constantine, for example, the first anti-Moslem commando force was composed largely of Jews-and the F.L.N. has not forgotten...
...leave-taking from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The wives were up to date in Jamaica shorts and Capri pants-but their Air Commando husbands, togged out in green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out of a World War II movie. Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp; others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118. Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took...
...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...