Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas. The site chosen, above six others originally under consideration, was Cam Ranh Bay, on the grounds that 1) it could be approached from the sea, eliminating possible sniper fire; 2) the nearest fighting was 50 miles away; and 3) the base is precisely what Lyndon Johnson has in mind when he says the facilities now abuilding in Viet Nam will some day be turned to the purposes of peace. One of the world's great natural harbors, it has been converted into a sprawling, 75-sq.-mi. complex whose port facilities already handle as much tonnage as Saigon...
...President heard an Army corporal say "Thank you for coming." "Thank you," he replied, "for being here." He reached for outthrust hands. "How about one for Texas?" shouted one soldier. The President gave him a hearty handshake and a big grin. In the air-conditioned Quonsets of the base hospital, the President gave out two dozen Purple Hearts, signed "L.B.J." on casts and fatigue caps, shook hands with nurses in baggy fatigues...
...Spanish were less concerned about the plight of Gibraltar's 25,000 inhabitants than about the state of their own pride, which is badly stung by Britain's continued hold on the base the British wangled in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Spain's cause won moral support two years ago from the United Nations' committee on colonialism, which bade the British negotiate. Bowing, the British finally agreed to hear out the Spanish, then found a way to further stall the proceedings. The method Britain chose was to propose that the matter be referred...
Schroeder constructed one high on a 1,600-ft. Vermont hill near his home base at Dartmouth Medical School...
Unlike some other Massachusetts Democrats, McCormack has recognized the necessity of a sales tax or some other source of revenue to enable the Commonwealth to operate. If in fact the sales tax should be defeated at the polls next week, McCormack with his wide base of support in the General Court would probably be able to get it through again, but Volpe would not. Anti-sales-tax sentiment is concentrated in the Senate where it is but a variation on anti-Volpe sentiment, a sentiment which grows stronger daily...