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...Alternatives. Ever since Tunisia won its independence from France in 1956, President Bourguiba has been trying to get the French to equip his fledgling army. His 6,000 men had only 3,000 rifles and less than three rounds of ammunition per man. Successive French governments, arguing that Bourguiba was giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, stalled the Tunisians off. Last September, after French forces in Algeria invoked "the right of hot pursuit" and began to follow fleeing Algerian rebels into Tunisian territory, Bourguiba publicly appealed to the U.S. for arms...
...before Project Vanguard's birth, the Army and Navy jointly undertook a satellite project thought up by Engineer Wernher Von Braun, captured German V-2 expert turned U.S. Army missile brain. Von Braun planned to equip the Army's tested Redstone missile with booster rockets and use the hybrid to send a small (5 Ib.) satellite into an earth-girdling orbit...
...leaders of the mystic Taoist faith in Hunan Province have been condemned to death, according to the Peking press, for "preparing paper-made robes, swords, warships, banners, bows and arrows in a vicious attempt to equip an army of the other world and attack the Communist Party." In the Taoist view, objects can be translated to the spirit world if paper representations are burned. Thus the paper ornaments could indeed be stockpiled for a counterrevolution of spirits...
Such an arrangement would provide the Club with permanent storage space for props and other necessary apparatus, and would thereby enable it to equip its Workshop productions better...
BONN, Germany, May1--The civilian chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said today its military planners soon will advise the 15 member nations to equip their forces with nuclear arms...