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...Increase pressure on the enemy. Possible first steps: a sea & air blockade of the China mainland; bombing air bases, troop and supply buildups north of the Yalu River; using atomic weapons (e.g., atomic artillery) against suitable enemy troop concentrations. A U.N. offensive could develop by next spring into a full-scale assault on the Red lines, with or without airborne or amphibious landings. Estimated new U.N. troops needed for the offensive: seven divisions...
...Communists had no aircraft or antiaircraft guns. With impunity, French spotter planes could hover close enough to see a man reading a map, call in a dozen Bearcats for a napalm strike and watch a camouflaged Viet Minh troop concentration scatter in terror. All that was required now was for the fanatical Communists to charge the French positions, throw themselves on the French wire...
After being a schoolteacher and a coach, Rice E. Cochran thought he knew and liked boys. When a local minister asked him to take over the church Boy Scout troop, he was happy to agree. Now, 20 years later, he has published the results of that decision in a new book called Be Prepared!* (Sloane, $3.50). Though he writes under a pseudonym (he is now an NBC scriptwriter) and keeps his town anonymous, Cochran manages to paint a lively, hair-raising picture of what it is like to be one of the most bothered and bewildered of U.S. educators...
...imagined that they would have eager, alert, likable faces-even noble or cute ones, similar to those I had seen in newspaper photos of Boy Scouts handing placards to the mayor or demonstrating bandages in City Park. Such types appeared to be in very short supply in this troop." Giggling and jiggling among themselves, they scarcely listened to his inaugural address ("Look at Big Shot," whispered one). Nor did they take his attempts at umpiring any more seriously ("That's a rob! Ya blind?"). On at least one night, the troop seemed unanimous in its estimate of the scoutmaster...
British counteraction was swift and drastic. Thousands of Kikuyu tribesmen fled in terror to the mountains as troop carriers and armored cars rumbled through the native reserves kicking up clouds of red dust. Kenya cops tracked down "suspects" with bloodhounds, arrested thousands of Kikuyu who got in the way. The government started closing down the native schools operated by Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the uncrowned king of the Kikuyu, whom...