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Strongest force in the traditionally land-warfare-oriented U.S.S.R. is an army of 160 divisions. It is the only major army in the world that has been completely re-equipped since World War II. Troop transport, at the moment, is not an urgent problem; Russia's army is already well deployed along the Soviet-satellite borders in the west (for potential use against the West or the satellites) and beyond the virgin lands in the east (for potential use against the West or the Chinese Communists). Even so, she is building a big modern fleet of jet and turboprop...
...Nationalists have worried about a possible change in U.S. policy ever since Dulles and President Eisenhower criticized the size of Nationalist troop concentrations on Quemoy and Matsu...
Convoyed from his native coastal village by a task force of rifle-slung motorcyclists and troop-filled jeeps, Major General Fuad Chehab rode to his inauguration as Lebanon's new president through a capital seething under a 48-hour curfew. In all its five-month civil war, Lebanon had never been more tense. This time it was the Christians who had erupted into new violence in protest against the abduction of a Christian journalist and backer of retiring President Camille Chamoun...
...Moslems voted they were "committing suicide." From Cairo, headquarters of the new Algerian "government in exile," Premier Ferhat Abbas denounced the referendum as an "intolerable pressure" on the F.L.N.'s fight for independence. "Algeria is not France. The Algerian people are not French," he cried. A French troop convoy was ambushed 90 miles east of Oran and 19 soldiers killed; a portable polling booth was blown up near the Tunisian border; in Tlemcen, a crowd watching an election movie was sprayed with F.L.N. machine-gun fire...
...official statement from the Foreign Ministry said troop cuts would clear the way for a Red invasion of Formosa and therefore "we cannot countenance the reduction of this defensive strength...