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Readiness. Meanwhile, political and military developments in Europe have given the colonels considerable leverage over the U.S. The growing Soviet naval presence in the Mediterranean convinced Pentagon planners of the need for a strengthening of NATO's eastward flank. Even more important, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the continuing threat to Yugoslavia were a clear indication that Greece's armed forces should be brought up to a high state of readiness. Consequently, the U.S. State Department wrestled down its objection to the junta and agreed to renewed shipments of heavy arms. The first consignment will consist...
...York, TIME correspondents filed their contributions. In London, Bureau Chief Curt Prendergast tried to track down Lord Harlech; in Dublin, a stringer searched out the remaining Kennedy relatives. Washington's Bonnie Angelo, summoned from a Detroit union hall where Hubert Humphrey was promising higher social-security pensions, hurried eastward to deal with the world of million-dollar yachts and $3,000 dresses. From San Francisco, Bureau Chief Judson Gooding filed a personal reminiscence on the Jackie he knew when they were both students at the Sorbonne...
...where he and Wife Jean Peters live in seclusion, Hughes has purchased a string of casinos, a flying service and more than 30,000 acres of land on which he envisions building a supersonic jet airport to serve the entire West Coast. Last week Hughes turned his attention eastward. Through his Hughes Tool Co., he offered to buy 2,000,000 shares of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. or a 39% share of ABC stock that would cost him a cool...
...Riders up!" The bugle sounds First Call. All eastward streams the rank processional...
...first light of dawn, troop-car rying Israeli helicopters lifted off their pads near Jericho and Sodom and raced eastward deep into neighboring Jordan. As soon as they had landed their in fantrymen in blocking positions, the main Israeli invasion force began to roll. North of the Dead Sea, Centurion tanks laden with helmeted paratroopers and halftrack personnel carriers trun dling infantrymen rumbled across the Allenby and Damiya bridges onto Jordan's East Bank. A second task force punched across the border south of the Dead Sea. Israeli artillery laid down a barrage that walked just ahead...