Word: attacks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hussein can and does thank the U.S. for the continued existence of his tiny, beleaguered Middle East kingdom, now shored up by the U.S. at a rate of $50 million yearly. Hussein has sat six precarious years on his throne, twice since Suez alone has been almost toppled by attack without and within. Finally, in a bold and deliberate show of control, he left Amman in early March, traveled leisurely past Formosa and Hawaii, hit the U.S. mainland at San Francisco. In Washington, Hussein was greeted by Vice President Nixon, feted by President Eisenhower. Said Ike to the sinewy little...
...elaborate briefings, the British dropped proposals that-if they got a bad reaction-were described as only suggestions to "study." During his visit to Moscow, Macmillan apparently became convinced that Nikita Khrushchev is obsessed with fear that the U.S. intends to attack Russia at the first opportunity. Macmillan's conclusion: the way to cure Khrushchev of his obsession is for the West to make public admission-at least by implication-that Soviet mastery of Eastern Europe is a "fact of life" that the Western powers do not intend to try to change by force. For doing this, the West...
...strafing and bombardment. The Khambas grimly surrounded a Chinese base at Kardezh in eastern Tibet, forced the Reds to supply it by airlift. Other Khambas cut roads, raided munitions depots, tied down troops. Chinese settlers brought in by the Communists wilted under the savage Tibetan climate, native hostility, armed attack. Tibetan Communists or loyal government workers proved difficult to recruit...
Castro, speaking next, said: "I feel my ideas at odds with those of our illustrious visitor." In support of neutralism, he offered a flattering version of U.S. civil defense: "They have shelters against atomic attack; we do not have even a miserable small hole in which to hide. Why not say these truths? Why not say that Cuba has participated in all the wars and when the wars were over its sugar quota was taken away?"* But Castro thought he knew how Figueres had gone wrong: he had been influenced by "a press campaign emanating from the monopoly of international...
Died. Edwin Balmer, 75, novelist (coauthor with Philip Wylie of When Worlds Collide), longtime (1927-49) editor of Redbook magazine; of a heart attack; in North Tarrytown...