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...riots in Casablanca (TIME, July 25), 60,000 of their troops have been standing guard in Morocco, but more, apparently, were needed. From its limited reserves in Europe, the French army flew a battalion of marines and a company of security police to beef up the Moroccan garrison. It even took space on commercial airliners to fetch hundreds of Senegalese NCOs from their units in Indo-China...
...garrison now includes 30,000 U.S. military personnel...
...tractors and dump trucks, concrete mixers and elevation loaders, electric and power shovels and bulldozers bumped and clunked on the project that is the heart of North Dakota's new hope-the second biggest rolled-fill earth dam in the world, across the unpredictable Missouri River at Garrison, N.D. Garrison Dam, a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Engineers and the state of North Dakota, already stands 200 feet high and 2½ miles long; its 70 million cubic yards of earth and stone exceed by 20 times the bulk of Egypt's Great Pyramid...
...improve no fewer than 18 million acres. North Dakota hopes the new water will bring it: 1) 3,600 new farms, 2) 1,700 new businesses, 3) 20,000 new jobs, 4) 93,000 more people. 5) $250 million a year in new farm and business incomes. The Garrison project will triple the power capacity of the state with its 400,000 kw., and its flood controls will impound floodwater from 180,000 square miles. Eventually, the Missouri will be backed up into a new lake 200 miles long and 6 to 15 miles wide...
...always be stronger, have never succeeded in meeting their 'NATO quota of 14 divisions. First there was Indo-China; since then the French have raided their forces in Europe to provide reinforcements for Africa. Last fall, over U.S. protests, they withdrew the equivalent of two light divisions to garrison Tunisia. To the U.S., which has promised to keep its five divisions in Germany, and to Britain, which reversed a policy of centuries by guaranteeing to maintain an army of 100,000 men on the Continent indefinitely, this was breaking a pledge...