Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candid as Lemnitzer, telling the European partners that they must carry a greater share of the burden. Rusk and U.S. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford offered only an estimated $50 million in fresh U.S. aid. They also promised to return to Europe for maneuvers two infantry brigades and four tactical Air Force squadrons that had been repatriated to the U.S. last year, to replace 80 F-102 interceptors with newer Phantom jets, and to build shelters for U.S. planes now parked on open ramps in West Germany and The Netherlands. To this, the Europeans were expected to chip in new expenditures...
Perhaps this was not the unmistakable signal to Moscow requested by British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, but as diplomatic warnings go, it was strong language. "Foreign ministers are not village idiots," a top U.S. official explained. "They know we're not talking into thin air. What we're saying is watch...
...carrier. The craft has four pads marked with red and white bull's-eyes on her 100-yd. flight deck for launching up to 30 helicopters of the Hormone type used in antisubmarine warfare. The Moskva is the first Soviet vessel in the Mediterranean equipped with ship-to-air as well as ship-to-ship missiles, and each time a U.S. Navy P-2 patrol plane tries to take a peek, the Russians swiftly swing the missiles below decks on elevator platforms. In a crunch, the helicopters could carry troops. In the future, the Moskva will be able...
...muscled into the Mediterranean, says U.S. Rear Admiral Richard C. Outlaw, "in a concerted attempt to alter the balance of power in this area." It is to keep the balance even that this week Outlaw, whose name the Italians have happily translated as Il Bandito, takes command of Maritime Air Forces, Mediterranean (MAIRAIRMED), the special new NATO naval air arm created to coordinate the watch on the Russians watching NATO...
...spending accounts for half the island's G.N.P.), voters were only offended at his disrespect for the opponent who was his former teacher. Meantime, Yara's campaign workers pinned on him the devastating label "yellow Yankee." The campaign raged over Okinawa, with sound trucks punctuating the air with the rival slogans...