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...quick and dirty fixes." Given the charter by President Kennedy, he rescinded Dwight Eisenhower's morale-damaging order calling for a cut in the number of military dependents abroad (to slow down the dollar drain), and thus won the undying, somebody-back-there-likes-us gratitude of the troops. Polaris got a new step-up, and a fast order for new troop-transport planes shot out of the E Ring like a bullet. Publicly McNamara stumbled only once-and that was to his credit. In early February he casually told Washington newsmen that he did not think that...
Pistol Packers. The hurried fleet and troop movements of last week were only the cocking of the pistol over threatened Laos, and the man who held the gun had plenty to back him up. He is Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), boss of the biggest military contingent in the world (TIME Cover, Jan. 6). At Felt's call are the 373,000 men. 1,000 aircraft and 400 ships of the First and Seventh Fleets, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces, and the Army's 1st, 7th and 25th Infantry Division. Highly mobile...
Applying his new authority might be more difficult. From Katanga came ominous rumblings from Moise Tshombe who threatened a "bloodbath" if the 2,500 U.N. troops stationed in his area tried to disarm his 5,000-man army. Premier Joseph Ileo in Leopoldville and Rebel Chief Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville roared their own defiance. To face these threats, the U.N. needed more manpower; the Congo combat force was already down to 17,500, would drop to 13,800 by mid-March if the Indonesian and Moroccan troop units pulled out and went home as planned. Needed was a minimum total...
...Ionesco's man-turned-rhinoceros, and flanked by two beetling aides,* Zorin laid out the Soviet demands in his curious reedy tenor: 1) arrest Katanga's Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army Major General Joseph Mobutu, and put them on trial; 2) dissolve all Tshombe and Mobutu troop units and force all Belgians out of the Congo; 3) pull the U.N. force out of the Congo within a month...
...increase the airlift capability. Defense will add 53 troop-transport planes to its purchasing program. Thirty of these planes will be Boeing C-135 jets (military version of the 707). Deliveries at the rate of two per month will begin in June. The remaining 23 planes will be Lockheed null turboprops, which will be turned out at a fast eight per month, beginning in July. In all, the aim is to outfit the military with long-range (4,000 miles plus) craft with a 25-ton payload that can operate on relatively short, 6,000-ft. runways...