Word: benghazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans, the source of pain was all too familiar: a 297-page report by a parliamentary committee investigating overseas military spending. Sweeping the bases, the committee found Benghazi about to be closed, Hong Kong indefensible, Gibraltar all but useless, Singapore disorganized, Malaysia too powerful, and the new Indian Ocean airbase at Gan dismayingly expensive ("The contract estimate has been revised on five occasions"). At all these bases, charged the committee, the armed forces have squandered the taxpayers' money on illusory projects. At Hong Kong, the army "surrendered" valuable land to the local government, which not long ago sold...
...Force rushed paramedics and tents from Wheelus airbase at Tripoli, and the British ferried in doctors and nurses from their base at nearby Benghazi. At week's end more than 200 bodies had been recovered and an estimated 300-500 still lay buried in the ruins...