Word: ararat
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...head off the seemingly inexhaustible dangers of world crisis. To the White House came the top diplomats, the military and intelligence chiefs, all bringing bits and pieces of a jigsaw puzzle of Soviet tanks churning westward through the bloody snows of satelliteland, of MIG-17s swooping southward past Mount Ararat to take up menacing new forward bases in Syria...
...town to address the Imperial Potentate's Banquet at the annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
Behind the haggle over details, however, is the common conviction that in case of real trouble, all are in it together. Thus the new Balkan pact, in effect, closes the last gap in NATO's ring around Europe, which begins in Iceland and extends to Mount Ararat. So happy did Tito feel about the whole thing that at the party after the signing, he passed word around that he meant to celebrate until the small hours; anyone who was sleepy should forget about protocol and leave ahead...
...West's defensive cordon against Soviet aggression starts at the Arctic Ocean, sweeps down across Western Europe to the Mediterranean and into Turkey. There, in the vicinity of Mount Ararat, the West's defenses end-and Soviet opportunity begins. An offensive rolling through Iran and on to Iraq 120 miles away might easily overrun the West's advanced air bases at Habbaniya (Iraq) and Dhahran (Saudi Arabia). It might also outflank Turkey and open the back door to Europe...
...there were difficulties. One was whether the U.S. should extend to Pakistan its guarantee to defend other peoples' boundaries (by NATO pact, the U.S. has already promised to defend 13 nations, extending in a vast crescent from Iceland to Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey). A budget-conscious new U.S. Administration is also not keen to take on another $250 million worth of foreign obligations. Furthermore, the U.S. is aware that Pakistan wants a strong army not only to protect itself against Russia, but against India, which it passionately dislikes, largely because of the Kashmir dispute...