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...April's abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. In sharp contrast to the televised circus of the men's initial interrogation, the trial was held in secret behind the walls of Havana's Príncipe prison. The regime posted no formal charges, announced merely that a five-man military tribunal would act as both judge and jury. No friends or relatives of the men were allowed in to see what went on. Only Cuban and a few Iron Curtain reporters viewed the proceedings-and sent out tightly controlled stories that all defendants "admitted their guilt." The word...
...Rosson, recently named as boss of the sort of "individual soldiers" McNamara mainly had in mind: the men of the U.S. Army's Special Forces. The Special Forcemen are training all of South Viet Nam's Ranger companies, all of the loyalist troops in Laos, and five-man teams of South Vietnamese paratroopers for behind-the-lines raids. One of the Army's toughest combat soldiers, Rosson, at 43, is also its youngest major general, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon, DSC from the Anzio beachhead, and a qualified paratrooper...
WHRB has elected Susan J. First '64, of Moors Hall and New York City to its Administrative Board--the first 'Cliffie ever chosen to the station's five-man governing body. Miss First was also elected vice-president...
...front man for the tough reform regime of General Park Chung Hee. Scarcely six weeks later, accused of obstructing the revolution. General Chang was put under house arrest.* Last week, dressed in the shabby white robe of a common laborer, he was sentenced to the gallows by a five-man military court in Seoul...
Each Atlas missile requires a five-man operating crew. But a three-man crew, working from a concrete bunker 60 ft. below the surface, can fire up to ten Minutemen. Such savings make the Minuteman the nation's cheapest intercontinental missile by far. At an estimated $3,000,000 per missile (counting costs of installation and ground equipment), the Minuteman costs less than half as much as the Navy's Polaris, a solid-fueled, second-generation missile that can be fired by a submarine from beneath the sea's surface. Originally, the Air Force planned to load...