Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loaded with combat gear, a platoon of U.S. marines rode trucks out of the U.S. naval base at Cuba's Guantánamo Bay one day last week. Objective: the base's freshwater supply, a pumping station seven miles inland on the Yateras River...
...served with him in BuPers-and to drop down from admiral's country to see an occasional shipboard movie. Title of one movie: The Desperate Hours. He presides over a flood of operational, intelligence and logistics reports that range from one end of his command at the Navy base at Port Lyautey, Morocco, to the other end in the Persian Gulf, where the Navy maintains a little-heralded and could-be-boosted force of one seaplane tender and two destroyers. He keeps up a drumfire of "sitreps"-situation reports-to Admiral Burke, a flow of erudite radio dispatches...
Accidentally Neutral. If there was a world demand for summit talks about the Middle East, the French were in less of a hurry to gratify it. French diolomats blamed the stampede to the summit on an appeasement of British Labor, and thought it bad to base Western policy on an opposition that holds no responsibility. Piqued at first at being excluded from the U.S.-British foray into the Middle East, the French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality...
Into this poisoned atmosphere moved De Gaulle. Shrewdly distinguishing between the Tunisians' natural sympathy for Algerian independence and their own need for continued French economic support, De Gaulle withdrew French troops from southern Tunisia, pulled back to the French Mediterranean base at Bizerte and let Bourguiba know that he wanted his friendship...
...holder of the world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles up in the Bell X-2 rocket plane), designated to fly the missile-like X-15 now being built to go higher than 100 miles; in the crash of his F-104 Starfighter; near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif...