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...pushed by the British ever since their evacuation of Suez, the main Middle East defense line would be established along the rugged Zagros mountain range which runs from eastern Turkey southeastward along the north shore of the Persian Gulf. This line, the British argue, is "the only reasonably defensible terrain," can be supplied readily from Iraq, and they figure they could fly in an armored division from Libya, Jordan or Cyprus in less than three weeks after a Russian attack was launched...
...chairmanship of the new united party for their leader, Mosaburo Suzuki, a onetime ricksha boy, a poet who writes under the name of Mojin (growing person), a pacifist who did 2½ years' time in imperial jails during World War II, a longtime inhabitant of the marshy Marxist terrain between Socialism and Communism. For their part, the right-wingers installed as party secretary general their boss, Inejiro Asanuma, a big-chested, big-voiced union man who has a background of antiCommunism. He is a stronger, more forceful type than Party Chairman Suzuki. The reunited party's line: preservation...
...German armies were in full retreat from their disastrous Russian campaign. On half an hour's notice, the prisoners were ordered to march west, through 40°-below-zero cold, across the same winter terrain where Napoleon's ragged foot soldiers once made their own decimating retreat from Moscow. Having lived on half rations for nearly a year, the shaky, shaggy marchers had more to fear than hunger or freezing. Their long, anonymous column made a tempting target for Allied air power, beginning the final sky mop-up in Europe...
...Tough Terrain. Abiding by Banff National Park regulations, the group registered with authorities to climb Mount Rundle (9,675 ft.). When the boys and their leaders saw Mount Temple, 11,636 ft. high with its craggy, seamed and snow-capped summit towering above Moraine Lake, they decided to climb it. But this time they did not tell the park authorities of their plan-if they had, they probably would have been denied permission because of the dangerous snow conditions of summertime. They did not ask guidance on the route or conditions for scaling Temple's tough terrain. They were...
...Navy-inspired Tacan would make Omni-DME obsolete. Since both systems use the same ultra high-frequency radio band (960-1215), the two are incompatible, just as two broadcasting stations will not work on the same frequency. The Air Force, which found the Navy system less sensitive to rough terrain than Omni-DME, backed Tacan...