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...days later, the entire 6.500-man U.S. garrison in Berlin was put on alert, tanks and armored personnel carriers were rushed to the Friedrichstrasse's "Checkpoint Charlie" as two U.S. Army officers in civilian clothes, driving a grey Opel sedan, were escorted by three Jeeps filled with armed infantrymen through seven blocks of Communist territory. British Centurion tanks moved up to the Brandenburg Gate in their sector of the city...
...other moves, more armored personnel carriers were ordered overseas to provide U.S. infantrymen with necessary mobility. The 6,500-man U.S. garrison in West Berlin received first shipments of fast-firing (750 rounds a minute) M-14 rifles to replace obsolescent Garands and Browning automatic rifles. Ready to head overseas were 1,800 paratroopers and 72 supersonic F-100 fighters, all scheduled to participate in a NATO air-sea-ground defense maneuver dubbed "Operation Checkmate." At Checkmate's close the paratroops will return home-but the planes probably will remain in Europe...
...hard-bitten U.S. sergeant and his crew raced up in a Jeep armed with a 106-mm. recoilless rifle and parked with the gun's muzzle pointed directly across at the Reds. At Friedrichstrasse-the one entry point now open to non-Germans-a platoon of American infantrymen moved up directly to the border opposite a group of East German Vopos and a water-cannon truck; an M48 tank and two armored cars rumbled up and parked near...
...Russians also unveiled a twin-jet flying boat (the U.S. experimented with one, wrote it off as of little strategic value), a new three-tailed helicopter with jet-driven blades, and a huge conventional helicopter carrying a small house slung beneath it and capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging...
...with the Congolese. Said he: "We get along wonderfully well. I happen to like Africans." One result: after long, friendly talks with President Joseph Kasavubu, the U.N. chief was able to move his troops back into the Congo's main port of Matadi; only last March, angry Congolese infantrymen had blasted them out with mortars and machine guns...