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...world knows that the U.S. will never engage in preventive war," says the Rockefeller Report. Nor can the U.S. turn into a coercive Communist-type garrison state. "The power which is generated by the voluntary effort of a free people cannot be equaled by the reluctant compliance of subject nations." The only choice for the U.S. is to generate the essential new power while also preserving and expanding the democratic vigor of the U.S. way of life and the growth of the domestic economy...
...Assistant Navy Secretary Garrison Norton charged that a "dollar straitjacket" had "seriously hampered" missile research and development. As Norton told it, the Navy continually had to get approval from Comptroller McNeil to spend the skimpy R. & D. (research and development) funds voted by Congress. Asked the subcommittee's Counsel Edwin L. Weisl: What experts does McNeil have on his staff to advise him on R. & D. projects? Replied Norton: "None...
Last week the Madrid government finally permitted its tightly controlled press to report that the Spanish garrison at Ifni had taken a beating. The first official casualty list enumerated 62 dead, more than 100 wounded. The government admitted that the Spanish defenders had abandoned the frontier outposts to the invading Moroccan irregulars, and had drawn back to regroup around the town of Sidi Ifni itself. Farther south in the Spanish Sahara, the Moroccan Liberation Army announced an offensive on Al Auin, declared that five desert outposts had been "liberated," with Spanish losses of 120 dead...
...victory was a team rather than individual effort, with the spread between the first and last qualifier being only eight points. Junior Bill Garrison and sophomore Dick Murphy led the Crimson with 285 out of a possible 300 points...
...found indications that the sandy wastes of Spanish Sahara, like the French Sahara farther east, may hold oil, a resource to be found nowhere else in Spanish territory. At week's end. Franco rushed 3,500 more troops into Ifni and had beefed up his Spanish West Africa garrison to 5,000 with reinforcements from the mainland. Morocco's partisans, regular or irregular, were not going to get the Spanish Sahara and its oil (if any) without a fight...