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...nearest encampment of Russian forces is only 36 miles from the U.S. naval base at Guantdnamo, Cuba. Motorized Communist-bloc artillery waits at the end of specially cleared roads pointing toward the perimeter. Inside the 45-sq.-mi. base (see map), the 4,000-plus U.S. sailors and marines hold their tempers, their fire and their ground. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers flew out of Guantdnamo with a report on the base's situation and readiness...
Mali's annual per capita income is $53, and its national budget this year amounted to a sizable $58 million. It recently got a U.S. grant of $2,500,000, while Communist-bloc aid has totaled some $100 million over the past two years. But its most pressing need is for still more foreign...
...their deaths." He adds coolly: "Some were killed by the French, others by internal strife." ∙ In 1960 Boumedienne was given the task of "forming a national army" in the security of training camps in Morocco and Tunisia. He carefully built and husbanded a crack fighting force equipped with Communist-bloc weapons and indoctrinated with Marxist ideas. "It's the best group that ever was," he brags. He kept his units in fighting trim with diversionary attacks on the French army's fortified defense lines across the border, but his troops took no part in the bitter...
Technicians, Yes. At last week's press conference, President Kennedy was asked about Communist-bloc troops or supplies entering Cuba, and replied: "New supplies, definitely, in large quantities. Troops? We do not have any information, but an increased number of technicians." Just the same, at week's end the President sent his top military adviser, General Maxwell D. Taylor, on a hurry-up tour of U.S. military installations that would be involved if Cuban trouble flared up: the Panama Canal Zone, the new Strike Command headquarters at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base, and the Atlantic Fleet...
English is already the mother tongue of 250 million people; it is the second language of 250 million others. It has long been the language of world commerce and, said Eccles, is rapidly becoming "the accepted language of development and aid in all continents." Even Communist-bloc engineers on foreign aid missions accept English as the lingua franca; more than 50% of all Soviet schoolchildren take an intensive, eleven-year English course...