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Died. Marshal Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev, 63, onetime (1949-57) chief of the Soviet Air Force, later (1957-59) boss of Aeroflot, the civil airline, a bomber pilot chosen by Stalin to develop a Red version of SAC in case the missiles went pffft, later picked by Khrushchev to make Aeroflot, world's biggest carrier, a Soviet showcase with monster TU-114 airliners, which turned out to be uneconomical passenger editions of the Bear bomber; somewhere in the Soviet Union...
...cold war: "Five Russian divisions are demobilized, an atomic testing station in the Urals is destroyed, and 40 new Soviet Submarines are flooded and sunk. The Americans pick up this information, and they immediately sink 14 of their own missile cruisers, slash the tires on every SAC bomber. . . The President closes down the Pentagon, furloughs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fires the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Both sides are eyeball to eyeball, headed hellbent towards a peaceful showdown, and nobody blinks...
...SAC Commander Thomas Sarsfield Power, the four-star Air Force general who last week took a foursquare stand against the nuclear test ban treaty, has never shied away from a scrap with his superiors. In 1959 he completed a book advocating, under certain conditions, a preemptive first strike against Russia. The Defense Department hurriedly suppressed the work, ordered Power not to permit its publication. In 1960 Power raised President Eisenhower's hackles by damning the Administration's defense budget as perilously inadequate. Last year Power clashed with the Kennedy Administration over its foot-dragging on the B70 bomber...
Power served under growly, grumpy Curt LeMay in the Pacific and impressed his boss-probably, say some cynics, because Power was so much like LeMay. The day LeMay took over SAC in 1948, Tom Power became his deputy, soon earned a reputation as a hatchet man who executed orders with iron-pants precision. After six years, he moved to Baltimore to head the 40,000-man Air Research and Development Command, returning to Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base to take over SAC...
...Rings Away. As SAC commander, Power is never more than six rings away from telephones that can put him in immediate touch with the President, the Joint Chiefs, and a global network of 75 SAC bases. Even his golf cart is rigged with communications gear. As commander of the 200-man, multiservice Joint Strategic Targeting Planning Staff, he is also charged with assigning targets to every bomber and guided missile in the U.S. arsenal...