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...Asked point-blank at his press conference whether the U.S. merely supports the Nationalists or would help them recapture the Communist mainland. President Kennedy was at first reduced to an ungrammatical stutter: "Well, I'm not-I think that I'm not aware of the statement that's been made. We have not been consulted about-as I stated-in the way that the agreements would call for and that, therefore, I would think that there'd be no use in explorations of potential situations...
...terminal in Birmingham, Ala., to start on the ten-hour, 365-mile run to New Orleans. At 2:45 they were barreling along Alabama Highway 5 when a cream-colored car passed them, raced on to a junction, turned and sped back. From the car a shotgun was fired point-blank at the cab of the lead truck, critically wounding Driver Charles Warren...
...Point-Blank. Warning darkly of a "Communist plot," Rodriguez Echavarria sent air force troops into the streets of Santo Domingo last week with orders to shoot to kill in case of trouble. They found trouble at the headquarters of the National Civic Union (U.C.N.), the country's strongest anti-Trujillo organization...
...building. Soldiers climbed a ladder to cut off the loudspeakers. A car drove up, and Rafael Bonnelly, the mild-looking lawyer and U.C.N. leader who was scheduled to succeed Balaguer as President, stepped out to protest. "Without warning," says a witness, "gunners on top of the tanks opened fire point-blank at the people." Soldiers pointed their guns at Bonnelly and shouted to their commanding officer to "get out of the way so we can shoot!" Bonnelly's aides pushed him into his car and raced away. Behind in the street lay five dead, 20 wounded...
During the next 48 hours the East Germans got reinforcements: more than 70 Soviet medium tanks, which parked unobtrusively in the side streets near the border crossing, as the U.S. made a fourth sortie into the Russian sector. For one night, U.S. and Soviet tanks squared off at the point-blank range of 200 yards, but both sides lumbered off at morning without incident. It was the first time that Russian tanks had appeared in Berlin since they put down the uprising in June 1953. No word of their presence has appeared in the East German press...