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...only specific proposal to ease NATO tensions is the U.S.'s MLF concept of a 25-vessel fleet of Polaris-missile-equipped merchant ships, manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. This is aimed at reducing the resentment of the allies against U.S. veto power over the use of nuclear weapons and at checking the proliferation of such weapons. The MLF missiles would cover Communist airfields and medium-range missile sites that now threaten Central Europe...
...artery had become blocked, possibly by fatty deposits, under the shoul der, where muscle and bone crowd it. Ford's well-developed muscles and his pitching profession aggravated the block: every time he threw a pitch, his muscles and bones would pinch the artery, constricting the vessel even as it was straining to allow blood to pass through. The most promising therapy would be removal of the sympathetic nerves that control the contraction of smooth muscle in the arterial walls...
...total impression is of a complex, sensitive and enormously literate mind, all the more fascinating since it belonged to a man in the highest of political offices, where he made his inner humility a palpable power in the balance of nations. "I am the vessel," he wrote. "The draught is God's. And God is the thirsty...
...target remained. Neither destroyer spotted torpedoes or answering gunfire, but two lookouts claimed they spotted the bow of a boat. A thorough search of the area next day turned up none of the debris-life jackets, cans, splintered wood or bodies-that would be expected to mark a sunken vessel. The only ones who seemed to be sure of what had happened were the Russians. Tass, with barely disguised glee, reported helpfully that three ships had been sunk by the U.S. gunfire, but its statement was nowhere confirmed...
...have some dozen torpedo boats armed with 57-mm. recoilless rifles and other weapons. Two other exile possibilities: the smaller November 30 Organization, which says it shelled a Cuban freighter homeward-bound from Canada two weeks ago; and the Comandos Mambises, which claims to have attacked a Russian vessel in the Cuban port of Cabanas early this month...