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...should not have made it but they did. At the last minute they said this commander wanted American air force to come in there and intervene. Well, I couldn't think of anything probably less effective than in a great big jungle area and with a besieged fortress, trying to relieve it with air force. I just can't see how this could have been done unless you were willing to use weapons that could have destroyed the jungles all around the area for miles and that would have probably destroyed Dienbienphu itself, and that would have been...
...cost 100,000 casualties. Of course, neither Eisenhower nor Bradley can be blamed, because they had to rely on intelligence reports. The miscalculation of the fighting power of the Nazi units when Germany was already completely disintegrated was no less a myth than the fiction stories of the "Alpine Fortress...
Last week, the Republican strategy paid off handsomely. Of the 144 seats, the G.O.P. took 99, including 21 in districts where the vote is ordinarily Democratic. Even the Democratic fortress of Wayne County (Detroit) suffered in the sweep; Republican delegates won eight of the 45 openings there. Encouraged by the outcome, Republicans looked forward to next autumn's gubernatorial campaign. Cried G.O.P. State Chairman George Van Peursem: "The Republican Party is on the move in Michigan...
...shouting that the marshal was under arrest. "Tell the colonel that he knows only an officer of my own rank can arrest me," said Lott, and went back to sleep. Back came a field marshal (Brazil has 36) to toss Lott into a damp, stone walled dungeon beneath the Fortress of Laje, a turret-topped rock jutting above the waters of Rio Bay. On Denys' orders, more than 100 army officers, loyal to Lott and insisting that the constitution be respected, were rounded up at Tommy-gun point in Rio. To uneasy reporters standing before his white cottage...
...missile installations is Complex 2-A, 725th Strategic Missile Squadron, near Lowry Air Force Base. The complex lies on an abandoned World War II practice bombing range. The land is lonely and peaceful, with the snow-tipped Rockies looming 30 miles away. The only external evidence of an underground fortress is an entrance portal, the ground-level doors over three Titan I silos, and silos containing 100-ft.-long radio antennas that rise along with the missiles and guide them on their way. At the concreted entrance tower, 13 steps spiral downward to a portal and a blastproof revolving door...