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...Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah deliberately edging his nation toward Communism, or is he just flirting harmlessly and neutrally at a safe distance outside the Soviet orbit? With considerable fanfare, he has added six Ilyushin planes to his little national airline, approved a new technical-aid pact with Moscow, and contracted for Soviet surveyors on the Volta River. But no publicity at all has been given to the last, most dangerous commodity just in from Russia: guns and ammunition by the thousands of tons...
Brave Dreams Again. Even in the first flush of worldwide praise, U.S. spacemen did not deceive themselves. They still have a universe to conquer. The Russians are far in front of them, and even if Project Mercury puts a manned capsule into true orbit by the end of 1961 (a hopeful schedule that few scientists take seriously), there is always a chance that the Russians will make an even more spectacular shot...
...Yuri actually make the flight? U.S. certainty that he had come by his honors honestly was based on a strategic network of listening posts capable of tuning in on the actual countdown, long-range radar tracking stations that plotted the orbit of the satellite and could even estimate its size and weight, electronic eavesdropping that may have overheard Yuri's radio reports to earth, and, finally, traditional cloak-and-dagger espionage inside the Soviet Union...
...confirmation of a pre-Yuri space flight-nor was one likely, for two reasons. The West confirms only those shots the Russians have documented in order to keep secret just how effectively the worldwide Western tracking net functions. And the Russians might well have calculated Ilyushin's first orbit as carefully as they did Gagarin's, which artfully swung around the earth in a pattern that avoided the major Western tracking outposts. In fact; the West saw neither initial orbit-but later picked up Gagarin's empty rocket casing still orbiting after his descent...
...Cuba, Laos and Iran, Lippmann was given a lesson in Leninist doctrine: "For Khrushchev these three are merely examples of what he regards as a worldwide and historic revolutionary movement which is surely destined to bring the old colonial countries into the Communist orbit" Lippmann got the impression that to Khrushchev "it is normal for a great power to undermine an unfriendly government within its own sphere of interest " deduced from this that "Khrushchev thinks much more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson...