Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent his annual report to Congress on U.S. participation in the U.N., credited the world organization with "solid achievements" during 1957. After Russia charged that the U.S. was urging Turkey to attack Syria, wrote the President, the U.N. Assembly's open discussion "demonstrated to the world that Syria and the Soviet Union had manufactured the 'crisis' as a propaganda maneuver against the West...
...French claim he became a bandit after killing a man who won the garde champètre job that he coveted. Krim denies the story, says he was wanted by the police for nationalist agitation, and fled to the hills to escape a two-year jail sentence for "an attack on French sovereignty." From then on Krim and his colleagues started preparing military rebellion...
Gathering forces for a surprise attack on the Administration's stand-pat tax bill last week, Florida's handsome Senator George Smathers found plenty of allies from the South and West. A top Capitol Hill specialist in transportation affairs, Smathers wanted to kill off the $700 million-a-year federal transportation taxes-3% on freight, 10% on passenger tickets, 4½% on pipelined oil, 4? a ton on coal shipments. And the South and West had long been grumbling that the freight tax discriminates unfairly against states far removed from the big-city markets and industrial centers...
...agreement to grant Philippine courts jurisdiction over off-base offenses committed by Philippines-based U.S. servicemen in the style of the U.S.'s status-of-forces agreements with Japan and other allied countries. And he also got a flat and unequivocal guarantee from President Eisenhower that "any armed attack against the Philippines would involve an attack against United States Forces stationed there and against the United States and would be instantly repelled." Summed up the Philippines' Ambassador to Washington Carlos Romulo: "Mission accomplished...
Suggestion of Veils. "Success is a terrible attack on your sense of values," admits onetime Paratrooper Serling. "You get teed off because the heater of your swimming pool doesn't work. But you've got to keep remembering that half of living is wanting." Last week Serling had more to fret over than his Hollywood pool. He, his sense of values and his Playhouse go show called A Town Has Turned to Dust were in the eye of one of the wildest storms ever to batter a TV script...