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...Nehru Indian Ambassador to the United States, said last night that the Pakistani military machine has been destroyed. Only if the United States were to rearm Fakistan, claimed Nehru, would that country represent a threat to the Indian people...
...furnished the Marines with the wrong calibre of rifle ammunition, and the mistake was not discovered until shortly before the landing was to take place. The only effective weapons available were mortars and a few pistols. When the troops landed they went immediately to the Tanganyikan armory to rearm themselves, which explains why so many of the Tanganyikan soldiers were initially able to escape. The quartermaster in Aden has since been returned to England for court-martial...
...desperately tried to make peace with Burma's assorted rebels. He guaranteed safe conduct for political and tribal leaders from and to their swamp and jungle hideouts. Results were discouraging. Ne Win complained that the rebels-particularly the Communists-only wanted to buy time in which to regroup, rearm and prepare new offensives. He broke off the talks, let the leaders return to their jungle camps and then began a police roundup of 1,400 leftists of all shades...
That unity is based in large part on the Franco-German reconciliation. In 1945, Germany was a disarmed and bankrupt country. The Western zones were permitted to rearm only within the bounds of NATO, which was designed partly to restrain any possible West German hopes of regaining the Eastern zones and the Oder-Neisse territories by force. Without tying Bonn into NATO, the U.S. would never have permitted German rearmament. Similarly, the Common Market is designed partly to contain West Germany's prodigious economic growth. And the Franco-German Pact, which reverses several hundred years of history, is the strongest...
When a Gemini capsule is about to re-enter the atmosphere, it will be positioned for retrofire by computers on the ground. The pilot will rearm the retrorockets, which will be fired automatically when the proper time comes. During the capsule's long fiery curve through the atmosphere its astronauts will have a slight degree of control. By firing attitude rockets and tilting the capsule, they will be able to give it aerodynamic lift and so control to some extent the point where it approaches the ground. When it reaches about 48,000 ft the pilot will release...