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...obviously stricken sub in hand and began towing it at a snail's pace in the general direction of Vladivostok, headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. As the Japanese press closely followed the drama, defense officials in Tokyo quietly pondered a couple of minor mysteries: What was the warship, of a type capable of launching nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, doing only 56 miles off Japan's westerly Oki Island? And what had gone wrong? The Soviets were volunteering no answers...
...American military were diverted to food programs like WIC, hunger would be vastly diminished and infant mortality rates lowered. As things stand, however, the Pentagon is going crazy and the children are going hungry--and dying. As President Eisenhower aptly noted in 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...
Said he: "It must have been a big one. I saw two planes dive over the mountains and down to the water and let loose torpedoes at a naval ship. This warship was attacked again & again. I also saw dive-bombers coming over in single file...
...from the constant threat of shelling from the mountains. That night, in fact, the city was peaceful for the first time in almost a week. But next day the shelling resumed, once again striking positions around Beirut International Airport and outlying sections of the city. In response, a U.S. warship fired directly into the mountains, toward a Druze artillery position...
...attention of President Roosevelt, who thenceforth makes him his unofficial confidant and emissary. As F.D.R.'s man on the spot, he meets Churchill, Mussolini and Stalin and is on hand for memorable occasions like the first conference between the President and the Prime Minister, aboard a U.S. warship off the coast of Newfoundland...