Acts And Entertainments
August, 1969
There have been 55 wars since the end of World War Two, and most of the killing, from the Congo to Sinai to Biafra, could not have taken place without a gigantic international arms trade--five billion dollars annually now and rising fast. The number-one governmental tycoon of this bloody trade is not Russia but the United States. In The War Business (Simon & Schuster), George Thayer traces the origins of legal gunrunning and finds it takes two forms, both deadly. In one, an entrepreneur named Sa...
