Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ignored were urgent U.S. requests to inspect the C-130 wreckage and, more important, for information concerning the eleven airmen still unaccounted for. If the airmen were dead, the Soviets would have no reason to hide the fact. If they were alive, were the Russians holding them hostage? Or were they at large in the Armenian hills, attempting to avoid capture, hoping to make it back across the Turkish frontier...
...bushy-haired, with a profile straight off an ancient Persian frieze, he looks like an Arabian king but talks like a professor of philosophy. His conversation, resounding and serious in any of four languages (Arabic, English, German, French), is punctuated methodically by the 1-2-3 and a-b-c of the lecturer. He is a Christian (Greek Orthodox), reads the Lord's Prayer and Creed regularly in Arabic at Sunday worship at his local church in Beirut, cons St. John Chrysostom for relaxation. His wife was formerly a teacher of literature at a Beirut women's college...
...week long monster C124 and C-130 transports, the white star of the U.S. Air Force emblazoned on their flanks, lumbered down onto Formosan airfields. Tent cities sprang up along roadsides. Crated jet engines were stacked in banana groves; laborers toiled night and day to extend hangars left behind by the Japanese in World War II. The U.S. was staging the biggest military buildup since the Korean...
Like most buildups, this one was fast, furious and frequently confused. Officers and units were grabbed wherever the Pentagon could find them. Captain Allen C. Lambard, a radio air control officer stationed in Guam, was yanked out of bed and ordered to pack his gear at 2 a.m. Air Force Brigadier General Avelin P. Tacon was flagged down by state police on a California highway. To General Tacon's intense surprise, the cops showed no interest in the fact that he was doing 70 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. Their mission was to tell him that...
...C| A few miles away from the Marine base, Matador missiles-capable of delivering nuclear warheads onto mainland China-stood on 24-hour alert, their crews constantly rehearsing countdowns. Elsewhere on the same field, a Chinese air force major, fresh from a kill of a Communist MIG, talked over combat tactics with an American captain who was about to take him up in one of the F-100 Super Sabres which the U.S. is providing to replace the slower Thunderjets and Sabres now flown by the Nationalists...