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Next, Major General George Keegan, Air Force Chief of Intelligence, recalled a trick that had helped warn off the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Using the same ploy, he sent out a deliberately uncoded message, as though by accident, estimating the number of Russian civilians who would die as the result of any Soviet attack on China. The various U.S. tactics had their effect, Haldeman says. U.S. photos soon showed the Soviet nuclear divisions withdrawing from the border...
...Soviet aim, according to Haldeman, was to position "mediumrange missiles" within range of U.S. nuclear command bases. DEW-line defenses that guard against Russian attack from the north would be unable to warn of a Soviet strike from the south. It was Kissinger who blocked this threat, contends Haldeman, by calling in Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and telling him the U.S. knew about the missiles but did not want another missile crisis. If the Russians desisted, nothing would be said publicly and detente could continue. Construction of the base was abandoned by the Russians...
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan was quick to warn American Jews last week that any misgivings they might have are of no consequence. "I wouldn't like them to tell us what to do," he said, adding caustically that he admired the Sinai settlers "rather more than I admire American Zionists who do not go to live in Israel...
...Jewish?, Prelude to Riot); of cancer; in San Francisco. A Trotskyite during the '30s, he worked for many years in the labor movement. In 1956 he became staff director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a liberal think tank. One of the first reporters to warn of the dangers of radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear testing, he later attributed his cancer to radioactive poisoning contracted while working on his articles...
...Attempted Coup. Several members of parliament came to me and said I must warn my husband of a plot against him. I told him, but he left me infuriated by his calm. I asked him 'Who is with you? Not the Minister of Defense, not the Minister of the Interior, not the Minister of Information. None is with you.' He only said 'Don't worry. God is with us.' He is so calm, he makes me furious. It doesn't mean that he doesn't trust me, only that he doesn...