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Mainland Sabotage. Nonetheless, Chiang stands ready for any eventuality. The country's 600,000-man army is well trained and well equipped, and Chiang keeps 80,000 troops poised and battle-ready on Taiwan's sister islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which are still bombarded now and then by Communist shore batteries. His high-flying U-2s regularly overfly the mainland taking pictures of Red China's defenses. Nationalist agents still cross the Strait of Taiwan to infiltrate the mainland. Chiang's government claims that 40 anti-Communist incidents occurred on the mainland between March...
Despite their tough talk about aiding revolutions and wars of "liberation," they have pursued a cautious policy, holding back from Quemoy and Matsu, for instance, and never really pressing their successful invasion of India. The Chinese understand, or must be made to understand. Washington feels, that their use of the bomb could bring instant retaliation from the U.S. and with it the destruction of their major cities and industries...
...there was a sense of propriety and fitness and decorum and dignity which Americans have always expected, and which they received from their First Family . . . Gone are those prideful, confident days when the great leader with us here tonight coolly faced down the Reds at Quemoy, Matsu and in Jordan . . . General Ike, we sure wish you were back running the show...
Addicted to quality, Sony has done as much as any company to demolish the cheap and imitative image of Japanese goods, and is being widely imitated it self. An Italian manufacturer for a while sold .a Sony-looking transistor radio called "Somy." Back home, electrical companies from Mitsubishi to Matsu shita this year rushed out portable TV sets to compete with Sony's battery-powered, transistorized models, which come with 5-in. or 8-in. screens and weigh only 8 Ibs. General Electric also started thinking small, last month introduced an 11 -in. plug-in TV set listed...
Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu, long the objects of Red designs, now seem relatively secure from attack, thanks partly to determined U.S. intervention in the Formosa Straits four years ago when the Reds shelled the offshore islands, partly because of Red China's disastrous economic situation. Besides, here as elsewhere in Asia, Moscow could probably score direct gains only in cooperation with