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...North Korea threatens that U.S. pressure to back off from testing a long-range missile may force it to push the button, military maneuvers by two U.S. allies in the East China Sea aren?t likely to ease tensions. Japan and South Korea continued an unprecedented joint naval exercise Wednesday, in response to North Korea?s increasingly belligerent missile-testing program. But acting crazy is an important part of the reclusive communist state?s effort to secure aid from Washington and its allies. "Making themselves a security problem is North Korea?s primary leverage in dealing with the world," says...
...first choice to accomplish the family's ascent to real power was his eldest, Joe Jr. When Jack Kennedy made the papers for his exploits as skipper of PT-109, the father sent the press clippings to Joe Jr., then a 29-year-old naval air lieutenant, to provoke him into getting started on his own heroic legend. It worked all too well. In the summer of 1944, Joe Jr. volunteered to fly a plane loaded with explosives into a Nazi missile site. The plan was for him to bail out before the plane struck its target. Instead...
...wants to assert itself as a regional superpower, but it?s a feeble one because China lacks the infrastructure to handle its internal problems, much less to project its power," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "For one thing, it lacks the ability to provide air cover for any naval operations around the Spratlys. Even threatening Taiwan is dangerous, because if the threat becomes too serious, that would force the U.S. to intervene, and that could be even more humiliating for Beijing...
...warned about body piercing and noted precautions to be taken against infections in those who "can't resist a naval ring" [Personal Time: Your Health, June 21]. Isn't a naval ring something worn only by Annapolis graduates? Guess you meant navel. Ah, for a spell checker that warns about homophones! LARRY STOOKEY Rockville...
LESLIE A. LUMMIS Independent, Guam Resume: Entrepreneur, manufacturer, homebuilder, author Relevant experience: Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve Platform: Abolish taxes: "It would be like Christmas every...