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ee ee a lt et I eat rao gat eet . with her allies, tne threat airec ted against her. The threat i jaimed at the whole Westerr Tenc ed : world. But the attack could br |\limited to one or several coun tries: The threat could result ir either an vpen and generalizec e To Streamline Forces j).0".22% one; or a subversive action; 01 a combination of the two." To meet this challenge, mil. itary men will rely increasingly on nuclear and thermonuclear PARIS (Reuters) -- Frenchjcraft missiles and .constructionjplan for the three armed serv military 'eaders are moving to of two aircraft carriers, a mis- ices. : streamline France's land, sea'sile-equipped, nuclear - powered) This year the defence staff is Nea and air 'orces submarine, modern tanks and/drafting plans for a second five- Pints tordhe national. 'dis Principal goal of the eight vertical take-off aircraft. Land project Per will carry miseion forest' provitie fer. (te year project will be the step- 3, A progressive reduction of|Pianning up to fei". building of 50 Mirage-IV super by step reduction of land forces jhe conscription period from}PLANS SPELLED OUT sonic jet aircraft, each costins from the present 700,000 men tosh present 28 months to 18) France's long-range military|about $4,700,000 a "peacetime" army of 450,000. |plans were outlined by Pierre) The new striking forces il Other plans include: -- __, ,.|Messmer, the minister for the include five or six mechanizec 1. Creation of a national 'dis- The plans were embodied injarmed forces, in a recent arti- divisions and one or two air suasion force," armed witha. bill,adopted by the Nationaljcle in La Revue Des Deux borne divisions equipped with strategic and tactical nuclear Assembly in December, 1960,|Mondes. 1,500 tanks, 3,500 armored trooy weapons. The bill amounted to a compre-| "France,"' said Messmer, carriers, 400 self-propelled gun: 2, Development of anti-air-ihensive five-year modernization "must be able to face, alone or'and 900 helicopters. Ao poner urmed with nuclear weapons up| FOCUS ON HEALTH to one kiloton, with a range of 25 to 93 miles. Internal defence forces in- elude modernized radar, better, inti-aircraft defences, and mil- 'tia units able to resist enemy "fifth columns." Pick Paintings By 1965, the French Navy wil To Be Sick By have two modern aircraft car- riers, the Clemenceau and the "och, and renovated amphib-|/By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS death rates from appendici- ous forces. By 1970, the present 78,000 man navy wili have been yrought up to 83,000. A_ first wuclear-powered submarine will Topics. this week: indergoing trials. geet France's main deterrent now) s the Mirage-IV, which can} leliver atomic bombs as far as will be no iir force expects to have morejvertical take-off han 30 of these aircraft. Thereiguided missiles choices of sick people, vul- nerable months in the ye at sea and a second will be _ womb, and a ecre asi ng reduction in 140,000-man air force, but in- 1,500 miles away. By 1965 the|creasing reliance will be put on aircraft tis. THE BEDSIDE CRITIC So you're sick in bed, and they show you 30 paintings and ask you which you'd like to hang in your hospital room. A jury of patients in hospi- "| tal at the University of Mich- igan were asked just that. They turned thumbs down on most of the candidates from the modern art field, and chose mental scapes, seascapes and wild- life. Most popular was Roy Ma- son's nerup was Winslow Homer's | sea action Breezing Up. Third | was Bridge at Argenteuil. TIME OF DANGER The nirst three months in the womb--the time of rapid development from a few cells | and to an embryo -- are among the most critical for the un- | born. defor: the mother is hit by virus | disea this period. & THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, April 17, 1962 11 instead quiet, senti- | early stages of pregnancy are paintings of land- | the time that. unborn animals are most susceptible to death or damage from x-rays and other ionizing radiation as well, So far it has not been proved that radiation dam- ages human embryos, Dr. Ro- | bert Rugh of Columbia Uni- * | versity reported to the Amer- | ican Radium Society. But, he warned, radiation can harm, even kill, embryo rats -- and these findings indicate that care should be taken in using x-rays on newly-preg- nant women. Fewer .people are dying from appendicitis, thanks to ses like measles during | antibiotics to control infec- | tions, and better surgery and Three Mallards. 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