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...perhaps his greatest contribution, McNamara skillfully implemented the Kennedy Administration's goal of balancing the ability to mete out massive (nuclear) retaliation with the troop strength, versatility and mobility needed to fight limited actions. Five years ago, the U.S. could have blown up much of the world, but it could not have put a relatively small ground force into Southeast Asia without undermining its strength elsewhere. Today the U.S. is able to honor its worldwide commit ments while fighting in South Viet Nam. For some of the very reasons that he is under attack in Congress, McNamara has been...
...Reds introduced a system of rank-and-file "control teams" with wide powers to crack down on dissidents. At the political prison in Hohenschönhausen near Berlin, a former Nazi forced-labor camp, the Communists recently revived the infamous system of "Kapos"-prisoners hand-picked for cruelty who mete out punishment to other prisoners for the sake of extra food for themselves...
...couple of Soviet diplomats got the kind of treatment in the Congo last week that many other countries have often wished but not dared to mete out to Red envoys...
...this uncertainty, Nkrumah turned more and more to the support of his Communist friends. Off to Russia went 68 Ghanaian cadets to attend a Moscow military institute, and onto the agenda of Accra's Parliament went an ugly little piece of legislation setting up special courts to mete out death sentences for "offenses against the state...
...left his quarters in the Havana Hilton Hotel whether the shooting of Fulgencio Batista's accused henchmen would be called off, Castro replied swiftly: "No. To the contrary, we have given orders to shoot every one of these murderers. And if we have to battle world opinion to mete out justice we are prepared...