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...QUEMOY AND MATSU. "Now I said to them [the Chinese Nationalists], as my military advice, not political advice, 'You would be much stronger to keep your major portion of your reserves in Formosa and the Pescadores, and make Quemoy and Matsu two real outpost fortresses. That is, have as few as possible troops, but heavily armed, and make them difficult to take.' Because remember, our doctrine did not say that the U.S. was committed to the defense of Quemoy and Matsu. It said that if the President determined that any attack on Quemoy and Matsu was a mere...
Still the civil war went on. Three hundred Communist Viet Cong guerrillas escaping the flooded south clashed in a bloody fight with government troops and civil guards. In the Mekong Delta region, a Communist band stormed the military outpost of Minh Duc, inflicting "heavy" losses on the defenders. Only 18 miles from President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital of Saigon, a U.S. military adviser on a training patrol with Vietnamese Rangers was wounded by a Viet Cong sniper. In the jungle north of the capital, a 500-man paratroop battalion was ambushed at the end of a three-hour...
Rather than concentrate its entire attention on the military protection of Berlin--a necessary though undefendable outpost--the West should vigorously counter Soviet offensives throughout the world...
...slight body, in a mahogany casket covered with the blue-and-yellow flag of Sweden, rested amid a sea of fresh flowers in St. Andrews' United Church of Ndola. Four sentries stood at attention, as those who could reach the remote outpost paid their last respects. Among them was the man Hammarskjold had flown to Ndola to see: Katanga's stubborn President Moise Tshombe, whose troops were battling U.N. forces less than 100 miles away. Dressed in a grey suit and somber tie, Tshombe walked in briskly, placed a wreath of white lilies on the coffin, stood motionless...
...playing host to the exhibit, he pointed out, TIME hopes to add a dimension of intimacy to the Berlin story: "For many visitors-for a great many, I hope-the exhibit will furnish some additional information and some greater understanding of the vital issues at stake in this crucial outpost of freedom...