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...Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There is no difference between a great majority of leaders of both political parties in firmly standing behind the President ... in supporting the fight of the people of Berlin and the world to achieve the kind of government they want...
Facing an air reserve officers' seminar in Washington last fortnight, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who means what he says and says what he means, tossed aside his staff-drafted notes and growled, "I don't want to offer you platitudes." Whereupon LeMay, longtime (1948-57) boss of the Strategic Air Command, now Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, proceeded into blunt analysis of the role of reserve and National Guard outfits in modern defense establishment. By last week, with the angry replies coming in. Curt LeMay may have wished he had stuck to platitudes...
Which Label? But the biggest question mark in East-West relations remained Russia's position v. Red China's. In Peking fortnight ago, seemingly bent on restraining Chinese aggressiveness, Khrushchev had denounced "wars of conquest" but added that Marxists could still recognize "liberating wars"-precisely the label Red China would apply to an attack on Formosa. From Washington last week, U.S. Secretary of State Herter and Under Secretary Douglas Dillon moved quickly to plug this loophole (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), warned that Moscow must share responsibility for Peking's acts...
...raise his hands in horror at the news of the attack on Kassem ("I am against all this terror and killing"), but many guessed that he was just making a show of propriety. The United Arab Republic's campaign to topple Kassem has reached a screaming crescendo; fortnight ago Syria's tough Interior Minister, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, presided at a clandestine meeting in the Syrian town of El Haseke with anti-Kassem Iraqi army officers to discuss plans for Iraq's leadership should Kassem be overthrown. When the meeting was over, Serraj flew off to Cairo...
...last March, Mrs. Gertrude Robinson, 71, was attacked and murdered in Warwick parish. Four weeks later, a second victim, Mrs. Dorothy Pearce, 53, was found badly battered in her cottage. In July, Spinster Rosaleen Kenny, 53, was attacked while she slept but her screams frightened the killer away. Finally, fortnight ago, a third victim was found, mutilated by sharks, floating in the surf off Southland beach. She was a pretty, brown-haired office secretary named Dorothy Rawlinson, 29, who had arrived from London in May and liked to sunbathe alone. In the soft pink sand, the cops found a copy...