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While the orders pinpointed the troubles in Nicaragua and Guatemala (see THE HEMISPHERE), they showed a U.S. firmness toward Castro & Co. that was notably missing in the days before the election. Henceforth, Navy patrol planes will scan the east coast of Central America while the Shangri-La squadron operates in the general area southwest of Cuba. The Boxer Marine unit will continue to conduct exercises in Puerto Rico and send Marines ashore on weekend liberty in friendly Caribbean ports...
...time for unity." The U.S., which had long felt that Vientiane had not been awake to the danger in the north and thinks that Prince Boun has the right idea about the Pathet Lao, moved a task force into nearby waters with 1,100 marines and a squadron of combat helicopters aboard as a warning to Peking to keep hands off Laos's governments-either...
Narrow Margin. Last week Mitchell got another chance. Discoverer XIV had been fired atop a Thor-Agena rocket from Vandenberg, Calif., and once again Mitchell's squadron was alerted. Mitchell slapped a cap on his red-thatched head, kissed his wife and promised: "I'll get it this time, honey." This time he did. But the margin of success was narrow indeed...
...moody soldier trained in a U.S. Ranger course in the Philippines, Captain Kongle, 26, was under orders to take his battalion 40 miles north to hunt down pro-Communist Pathet Lao rebels. Instead, he moved east to a nearby Laotian army camp, where he won over an armored squadron with the fiery plea: "This fratricidal fighting among Laotians must cease!" Rolling back to Vientiane before dawn, Kongle's 3,000 men swiftly captured the capital, its air port, two generals and a few minor bureaucrats at a cost of only six casualties...
...purpose of the picture was not to frighten but to reassure. Along Britain's coast there are 20 Thor squadrons of three missiles each, the warheads of most in position. But they cannot be fired by someone pushing a button in a panic. Under the terms of a 1958 agreement, the British man the missiles while the U.S. has control of the warheads. The keys symbolize and make concrete that joint control. Actually, there are two sets of keys, one held by a U.S. officer, another by an R.A.F. officer. There are three keys in each...