Word: bridgehead
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...hemisphere nations, Venezuela's Foreign Minister accused Castro of "an act of aggression." He announced that Venezuela would demand an emergency OAS Council meeting, and President Betancourt proposed a concerted hemisphere campaign to oust Castro from Cuba. "Joint action will be necessary," he said, "to finish with this bridgehead of Communism in Latin America...
...served as Eisenhower's Secretary of Interior, is determined to keep Morrison on the national Democratic hook. "Governor Morrison denies outside influences, but still gets the post office patronage and testifies in Washington for New Frontier programs," Seaton argues. A Morrison victory, he says, would mean "a Kennedy bridgehead in the heartland of the Midwest." Happy to get outside help, Seaton was benefited by a spirited Eisenhower appearance in Omaha...
...your article, "How Berlin Got Behind the Curtain" [Sept. 29]: as the commander of the regiment that established the first successful bridgehead across the Elbe River, I would like to make a few comments...
While we remained in our bridgehead, a German colonel showed up and asked us to evacuate 18,000 Allied prisoners from the camp at Altengrabow because he had nothing to feed them. We sent the 2nd Battalion 25 miles up the Zerbst-Berlin highway to Altengrabow and rescued them...
...bridgehead was established by the 329th Infantry on April 13 at Barby. The bridgehead made at Magdeburg by the 2nd Armored Division on April 12 was knocked back by German armor. The 329th bridgehead was severely counterattacked for three days but held firm, partly because we had rafted all our antitank guns across the Elbe...