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...often proclaimed that it wanted no territorial gain out of World War II. The big exception is Okinawa. According to an official U.S. Army handout, Okinawa-based bombers "have a far greater flexibility in choice of target areas than those based in either Japan or in the Philippines . . . They can reach all important target areas within an arc which includes all of Southeast Asia, the whole of China, the Lake Baikal industrial area, eastern Siberia, and the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula." In other words, Okinawa is the spearhead of U.S. retaliatory power in the Far East...
...Opposition. Outside the cities, the Communists were faring even worse. In nationwide elections, Italy's farmers were asked to choose administrators of a newly created agency to distribute medical and sickness benefits in rural areas. As usual, the Communists, who appreciate the political leverage of such handout jobs, organized house-to-house canvassing, plastered posters all over village walls, set up hundreds of meetings...
...with General Matthew Ridgway, Admiral Robert B. Carney, Lieut. General James Gavin and other high brass, he was turned down cold. Other Pentagon newsmen had similar experiences. An Army, Navy, Air Force Journal staffer asked for obituary material on a Marine brigadier general, did not get it until the handout was marked "reviewed and cleared" by a Navy captain...
...Ricardo!" pleaded the first, "Guatemala needs a handout...
...issue in Washington's current stock-market investigaton is the capital-gams tax. It is attacked on the one hand as a measure that stifles initiative and economic growth, on the other as a rich man's relief handout. Almost every argument about it is beclouded by a mist of special interest, politics and ignorance. Is the capital-gains tax fair? Should it be changed...