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Next, Nasser set Western alarm bells ringing by playing host to a Soviet naval delegation-which presented him with a model submarine-at the same time that Russian and Czech-built "naval units" were steaming into Egyptian ports to add muscle to his navy. Israeli newspapers warned that Nasser was about to reverse his stand against foreign bases by opening Alexandria to Moscow as a replacement for Russia's abandoned Albanian submarine base. Actually, Nasser granted a scant 35 minutes to the delegation's chief, Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy...
...ugly wall was being built -almost unnoticed by the world-along the entire East-West German frontier. It consists of two parallel concrete and barbed-wire fences, with land mines seeded in between. When it is finished, it will run from the Baltic coastal resort of Travemunde to the Czech border, turning all of East Germany into a giant concentration camp. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers toured the 834-mile border. His report...
...From Göttingen to the Czech border, there are still many open patches where no fences are visible. But the woods have been cleared, and pylons are stockpiled, ready to be sunk. At the Czech border, the East Germans have run their fence to foil East Germans who might try to escape to the West through that corner of Czechoslovakia that borders on both East and West Germany...
...Czech and Hungarian Tactics...
...officers above the rank of first lieutenant have had combat experience. "The Russian soldier is not nine feet tall to us," says General Bruce Clarke, commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe (USAREUR) and NATO's Central Army Group (CENTAG). Says Davidson: "The Soviet and Czech soldiers may have more rural ruggedness than our kids, but there's no mental comparison. Man for man and weapon for weapon, I'll take our people any time...