Word: bases
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...Britain could no longer ignore the economic pressures at home which demanded a restriction of military committments. The newly-elected Labour Government initiated the extensive defense review to establish more economically pragmatic policies. According to the new program, the British plan to evacuate their troublesome base in Aden by 1968. Forces in the Persian Gulf area and the heavy commitment in Germany will be maintained only if the troubling deficit balance of payments is abolished. In Europe and the Middle East, then, Britain's policy is to withdraw...
Clearly Wilson is not about to abandon Britain's vital military interests in India, Malaysia, and East Africa. The Singapore base is the key to the defense of Malaysia against the hostile Indonesian government. Indian Ocean islands form a chain of British outposts from Australia to Africa...
Getting into Lowell House just might be worth the trouble of dashing off a letter of preference to Dean Monro. Hospitable but not closing, intellectual but not pedantic, relaxing but not dull, and spirited but not rahrah, Lowell is an exceedingly comfortable and pleasant home base, and has enough certified Harvardian electics to make it interesting...
...view your editorial was off base in its consideration of the propriety of unions in educational disputes. Your first ground for opposition to teacher unions is weak indeed, for it rests on the fact that a body of labor relations machinery institutionalized in law has not touched for the most part educational and non-profit institutions such as St. John's. The labor movement which is now surrounded by laws with respect to its activity in industry and business, had to struggle for decades before laws were passed. It is a mark of backwardness that the educational sons such...
...Greek girl named Marina whom he later married in Beirut. In 1944 he was made chief of the Times's foreign correspondents, a post that he held until he became a roving columnist in 1954. When not on the road, he makes his base in the New York Times Paris office, where the walls of his suite are almost totally covered with autographed pictures of the world's political leaders, most of whom he knows quite well...