Word: bridgehead
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...found that support for Castro was fading fast among Latin American statesmen, labor leaders and intellectuals, even though he still has student support. "A year ago." said Schlesinger, "Castro struck many Latin Americans as a symbol of social change. Now he seems to them a symbol of a Communist bridgehead in the hemisphere...
...crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept postwar control of their onetime colony under a temporary U.N. trusteeship, due to wind up at the end of 1960, have announced...
...topflight Army Engineer Hoge served under MacArthur as first chief of the Philippine Corps of Engineers (1935), built the Alcan Highway (1942), was a member of the group that planned and operated Omaha Beachhead on Dday. He also commanded the armored division that captured the Remagen Bridge (first Allied bridgehead over the Rhine), went on to command a corp in Korea, finally served as commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe (1953-55) before retiring and joining Interlake's exectutive staff...
...result of the Paris accords." said Bulganin, "West Germany is being turned into a bridgehead for the deployment of large aggressive forces [and] is becoming the principal hotbed of the danger of war in Europe." From bases in West Germany, "air attacks on our country and other peace-loving states are being planned...
...White House with the officers and men who exactly ten years before had participated in the heroic capture of the Rhine bridge at Remagen, Germany, and handed out 15 scrolls designating them as members of the "Society of the Remagen Bridgehead...