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Once in Iran, all forces of Exercise Delawar, including 2,500 U.S.-equipped Iranian troops, came under the command of Iranian Lieut. General Gholem Azhari. His first concern was to defend Vahdati airfield near Dezful against an enemy column theoretically bearing toward it. This job was given to the U.S. paratroopers, who dropped in front of the invaders. At the same time, a U.S. amphibious force in the Persian Gulf sent a marine rifle com pany storming onto the island of Kharg to protect an imaginary oilfield against invasion or sabotage...
...Request to Uncle John. Arriving at the Redstone airfield, she got in a few plugs for her husband's space record: "Since 1958 one of Lyndon's most intense interests has been space. It would make him mad to see anyone outstrip us. He was co-author of the space bill in the Senate...
...Greeks, 6,000 Turks), and some 50 persons were killed or wounded in a series of fire fights for such strongpoints as a local brewery and the 12th century castle where England's Richard the Lion-Hearted married Berengaria of Navarre. British troops from the adjacent Akrotiri airfield finally separated the antagonists and won agreement to a ceasefire. But then the Greek Cypriots, supported by two homemade tanks, launched a dawn assault on the Turkish quarter...
...Quonset, the small white coffins were put aboard the Kennedy family plane, Caroline, as it stood, deliberately inconspicuous, at a far corner of the airfield. Senator Edward Kennedy accompanied them on the two-hour flight to Washington. At 8:40 that evening, a handful of relatives and close friends stood with Jackie during a 20-minute burial service in the flickering light of the "eternal flame" that burns at the head of John Kennedy's grave...
Shortly after 1 p.m., the soldiers moved. Throwing roadblocks across the avenues leading from the city to Saigon Airport, army units quickly won over units of Ngo Dinh Nhu's crack "special forces" near the airfield, giving a free hand to air force pilots who were planning to support the coup d'état with rocket-equipped dive bombers...