Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision to move strong forces onto Quemoy and the other offshore islands. "Fear," said Chiang, "grows the farther you get from the front-all the way back to the U.S." In a speech to the National Guard Association of the U.S. at Atlantic City, N.J., Under Secretary of State Christian Herter, in a remarkable echo of ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson, went out of his way to sneer at Nationalist China's devotion to the offshore islands as "almost pathological," then declined to release a transcript of what he had said...
...bomb groups were strangely silent. Knowing that it takes 18 months for the U.S. to prepare for a full-scale test, U.S. atomic experts were certain that the Russians began planning for the new test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William R. Frye, "students of Soviet diplomacy are leaning toward the theory that Moscow never wanted to stop testing, that it proclaimed a unilateral halt last March without the slightest intention of making the cessation permanent, and that the whole objective of Soviet diplomacy in this...
...luckless Lebanon, it showed signs of turning into an uglier situation than the one the U.S. went in to reverse. This time it is the Christian half of the populace, rallying closer to former President Camille Chamoun than they did when he was in office, who are the rebels. Chamoun now excoriates the U.S. for endorsing a regime that contains only his enemies. Just as Chamoun swung too Westward for Lebanon's Moslems to stomach, now the rebelled Cabinet swings too far toward Nasser for Chamoun and the Christians to tolerate...
...tough street mob belonging to the Christian Phalange,* the new rebels have tied up the streets and shops of Beirut with strikes and rioting more effectively than the Moslem rebels ever did. Last week, as more than a dozen Lebanese died, the new President, Fuad Chehab, was providing continuing proof of his immense capacity for doing nothing. As another 1,000 U.S. soldiers were evacuated, U.S. officials fretted over the danger of religious warfare between Christians and Moslems...
...parent (three children), rapped out his private A.P.B. on a teen idol, the late Cinemactor James Dean: "This ruthless, selfish, egotistical young fool was nobody's idol until our children were told that he was. He was an All-American rebel against all manners, morals, family decency and Christian society...