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...country on their own. He also knows that his departure can come none too soon for the 80,000 non-Africans still in the Congo. To many Congolese these days, the words mercenaries and whites are synonymous, and whites and Asians alike realize that they are in mortal peril from revenge-seeking Africans as long as the mercenaries mock Congolese sovereignty...
...Wilcox and his band, stumbling down to a prearranged meeting site at 15,000 ft., waited two days without further contact with the higher party, an attempt to turn back was thwarted by the storm. After four more days, with supplies low, Wilcox and his group were in dire peril themselves until a party from the Mountaineering Club of Alaska came to their aid. After a harrowing nighttime descent, Wilcox swam four icy streams to reach the Wonder Lake ranger station, which sent a helicopter back to rescue his four companions...
...offers both hope and warning. So long as such restraint prevails, a real confrontation of superpowers may be avoided. But if the Russians begin to feel cornered-to regard themselves as being pushed around too much by superior American power-the trend to moderation may be reversed, with increasing peril to world safety. Similar American restraint in areas of current or potential conflict can help avert a tragic showdown...
Through the dawn and early morning hours, Lyndon Johnson pored over cables on the Arab-Israeli war in his White House bedroom. After two weeks in which the President had bent every effort to avert hostilities, the overwhelming peril was that the U.S. and Russia would now be sucked into a direct confrontation that neither superpower wanted. Around 8 a.m., Monday, the President's bedside phone brought some electrifying and potentially ominous news. Walt W. Rostow, the President's national security adviser, was calling to report that the "hot line" was being activated from Moscow...
...Later. Few Americans faced real physical peril. One exception was U.S. Consul General John R. Barrow, who, with his British counterpart, was trapped by howling crowds on the upper floors of the U.S. consulate in the Syrian city of Aleppo. When the mobs set fire to the building, they escaped by sliding down ropes dropped from the back windows. With the help of Syrian security cops, they were able to hire taxis and, with six other Americans and Britons, made it safely to the Turkish border...