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...conventional forces. Here again, all Western defense policy has an interest--at least if it wants to raise the threshold at which nuclear weapons must be introduced to win less-than-all-out engagements. In fact, Canada has here a genuine opportunity to lead the NATO countries in boosting troop commitments that are placed under joint control...
...this threat to the island's basic economy, Widow Bandaranaike acted swiftly. She went on the radio, declared that "the nation cannot be held to ransom by threats," ordered general mobilization of the armed forces, sent troop reinforcements scurrying up to the Tamil areas. She decreed a state of emergency, under which strikers could be jailed for up to five years, and imposed curfews on principal Tamil communities. She banned the Tamils' Federal Party, tossed into jail more than 70 of its leaders, including all but one of its Members of Parliament. Swiftly, the rebelliousness of the widow...
...last film record of der Führer: a brief ceremony, conducted a few hours before his death, in which he congratulates a-starry-eyed troop of embattled adolescents, loyal to the last. He looks strangely peaceful, almost happy...
...exiled Cubans eager to see Castro overthrown. "There will not be under any conditions," he said, "an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces." But policymaking New Frontiersmen, convinced that the U.S. will be blamed for any anti-Castro revolt, were prepared to give solid assistance (short of troop support) to ensure that a coup does not fail. At week's end, as B-26s bombed Havana (see THE HEMISPHERE) the time for such help seemed drawing near-and the path ahead full of possible pitfalls...
...week Castro's Cubans had been excited by the possibility of an imminent showdown. They could find support for their fears on Page One of the New York Times, which reported from Florida troop-laden aircraft roaring off into the night, exiled Cuban doctors called to service on a hospital ship standing by off the coast, launches making nightly runs to Cuba with explosives and saboteurs. Training groups of exiles were reported breaking up at a mysterious jungle-warfare camp in the Louisiana bayous, at a sabotage school near Houston, at a string of seven camps between Guatemala...