Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nikita Sergeevich, I salute you on American soil," said the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. last week-and there he was. There on American soil was Nikita Khrushchev, short, bald and portly, wearing a black suit, Homburg and three small medals, bowing down the receiving line, accepting a 21-gun salute, parading past a guard of honor. There on his one hand stood his pleasant, shy wife Nina Petrovna, his daughters Julia, 38, and Rada, 29, his studious-looking son Sergei, 24, and a retinue of 63 officials and bureaucrats. There...
...usual fierce resolutions denouncing Israel, the eight ministers present added impassioned protestations of support for the Algerian rebels. But the two Arab nations that had done the most for the Algerian nationalists-Tunisia, by giving the F.L.N. rebels a base on its soil, and Iraq, by sending them some $10 million in cash-boycotted the whole conference. Tunisia stayed away because President Bourguiba insists that the League is still dominated by Egypt's Nasser, and Iraq refused to attend for the same reason. And even as the men in Casablanca talked unity, Radio Baghdad broadcast new testimony that Nasser...
...weeks relations between Iceland's 170,000 citizens and the U.S. garrison at the great NATO base at Keflavik Airport had been growing steadily touchier. On the Fourth of July a group of U.S. airmen went on a drinking spree at Thingvellir, a pastoral spot sacred to all Icelanders as the first meeting place (in A.D. 930) of the Althing, the oldest continuous Parliament in the world. Last month a U.S. officer's wife was arrested on the suspicion of drunken driving. She phoned the airbase and almost immediately the Icelandic police were surrounded by U.S. troops...
Then came the mud-puddle incident : four civilians confidently entered a restricted area of the Keflavik base, were challenged by a U.S. sentry and ordered to lie flat on the muddy ground for 15 minutes while a sergeant was summoned. Last week every daily newspaper in the capital city of Reykjavik was spread with flaming headlines. The "intruders" proved to be two officials of the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration and two American pilots bound for a hangar where the Americans' plane was being repaired. A U.S. spokesman hastily explained that it was a mistake on both sides: the area...
Economists worry that businessmen tend to "bunch up" their investments, overspend for capital goods and inventories in good times. "The up-and-down cycle exists simply because businessmen do not believe it exists," says a top Washington economist. "They base capital-spending decisions on a straight-line projection. Because business has been good in recent months, they figure it will never slack...