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Simple Stone. That night, while Moscow slept, a motorcade of Jeeps, troop carriers and armored cars sped into floodlit Red Square and drew up before the massive red-and-black marble Mausoleum containing the mummified corpses of Lenin and Stalin.* As detachments of fur-capped policemen sealed off the approaches to the square, soldiers descended into the deep crypt, emerged bearing the rigid body of Stalin, clad in a generalissimo's uniform agleam with medals...
...long ago conceded the Oder-Neisse line, and France at best pays only lip service to German reunification. De Gaulle's emphasis is on the maintenance of present Allied rights in West Germany and Berlin. He stands staunch against any sort of disengagement in Central Europe. against German troop limitations, and recognition of East Germany...
...whole subject of European security. Although the Administration insists on maintaining the Allied rights of access to and presence in Berlin, and on guarantees for Berlin as a free and economically viable part of West Germany, it has not yet completely ruled out the possibilities of a fully inspected troop thin-out or some sort of non-nuclear zone...
...personnel. The thinning-out was keyed to German reunification and contained measures for guarding against surprise attack. The Soviet Union flatly rejected the plan and offered its own, calling for withdrawal of NATO forces from Europe and the dismantlement of NATO's military bases, in return for Soviet troop withdrawals from East Germany, Poland and Hungary. The U.S.S.R.'s plan was intolerable to the U.S.: it would have meant that U.S. forces would pull back for thousands of miles while Russian troops would remain within easy attacking range. The present U.S. position offers room for negotiations along...
...Classic Detachment. The moving force behind the meetings was Alan Boyd, 39, a lanky, earnest ex-Air Force troop carrier combat pilot, who was a Florida state utilities and railroad commissioner before President Eisenhower appointed him to CAB in 1959. "I don't want to play God," says Democrat Boyd, "but CAB cannot maintain a position of classic detachment. I do not want my administration to be remembered as the one that let the airlines slide into as much trouble as the railroads are in." Boyd told the airline executives flatly: "We have all got to start doing...