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...Grey Areas. In the end, the ministers could not agree on measures that should be taken if the Soviets decide to invade another country. But in their final communiqué, they issued a double-edged warning that 1) they were "wholly determined to defend the members of the alliance against any armed attack," and 2) "Any Soviet intervention directly or indirectly affecting the situation in Europe or in the Mediterranean would create an international crisis with grave consequences...
Yugoslavia and Austria were clearly related to the security interest of NATO. American officials insisted that this was not a pledge to come to the aid of those two countries or others, like Rumania, in the so-called "grey areas"-the small Communist and neutral states into which the Russians might be tempted to move. But as one American official noted, "The security of NATO is no longer just something that involves the legal boundaries of NATO...
...planners are studying the options open to them should Russia push into a "grey area" country-partial or full mobilization, activation of reserve units, immediate airlifting of additional U.S. troops to Western Europe, full-alert status for strike aircraft and for troops on the frontiers of the Communist world. Such moves would be coupled with a grave new warning to Moscow, and no doubt a call on the White House-Kremlin hot line...
...aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal slid out of the Greek port of Salonica one grey dawn last week, a 900-ton escort ship waited for her just outside the harbor. The Forrestal turned southward into the Aegean Sea, and the escort dutifully took up station a mile astern, rolling gently in the huge carrier's wake. At midday, when the Forrestal catapulted her Phantom jets into clearing skies, the escort drew alongside to within 50 yards of the carrier. But not a signal was exchanged. The escort vessel was Russian, a super gunboat of the Mirka class, and the Forrestal...
Gothic Tastes. O'Neill the sometime melodramatist could not have improved upon his own beginnings. He was born on a grey, showery day in October 1888 in the Barrett House, a family hotel fittingly located on Broadway. (During his last illness in Boston 65 years later, he was to raise himself from a stupor and cry: "Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!") His father, James O'Neill, a famous romantic actor of the day. was giving something like his 1,400th performance in Monte Cristo, the play which for over a quarter...