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...clear whether the Pakistani drive had the limited objective of smashing Indian forces in the immediate area around Chhamb, or whether it had the far graver purpose of crossing India's international boundary itself to strike at the vital road that connects Jammu to Srinagar. In New Delhi, Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan declared flatly that Pakistan had invaded Indian territory, and officials spoke ominously of a nearby Indian armored division capable of moving into the Chhamb area within 24 hours. It might well move with caution, since India's armored equipment consists mostly of aged British Centurions...
...nature of the people involved." Oppenheimer branded as false the script's statement that Physicist Niels Bohr disapproved of the work at Los Alamos because he was worried about domination by the military. "Bohr understood and welcomed what we were doing," says Oppenheimer. An even graver distortion is the script's assertion that Oppenheimer felt that in making the bomb, "we have done the work of the devil." "This is the very opposite of what I think," said the real Oppenheimer last week. "I had never said that I regretted participating in a responsible way in the making...
...Michael Lerner presents graver misconceptions in his article, 'Our Blood,' April...
Political Voices. At week's end the worst of the purge seemed over. A graver danger to unity was the politicians. After winning the presidency for Castello Branco, the military let the politicians have a say in the Cabinet and vice-presidency. In a week of argument and political infighting, ten of 13 ministers were named; among those to come were the crucial ministers of labor and foreign relations. With their eyes on the 1965 elections, both Guanabara State Governor Carlos Lacerda and Kubitschek were in the thick of the bargaining. A Lacerda man-and a good one-landed...
Since Philadelphia gave Kennedy a 331,500-vote plurality in 1960, enough to swing the whole state for him, U.S. Representative William Green, boss of the city's well-oiled Democratic machine, professes not to be worried about next time. Another Democrat whistled a graver tune: "Pennsylvania is no sure thing for Kennedy. We've got troubles...