Word: cordoning
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Newsmen sped out ten miles to suburban Helmieh to Naguib's modest, one-story, stucco villa in the center of a sandy, poverty-row street. They found the ex-President incommunicado behind a cordon of wellarmed, closemouthed troops. Even his phone...
Turkey and Pakistan agreed to sign a pact to achieve "closer collaboration in the political, economic and cultural spheres, as well as strengthening peace and security." Its real significance is that it will help forge the first link in a defensive cordon for the Middle East's northern perimeter (TIME, Jan. 18). Throughout the treaty negotiations, the U.S. maintained an attitude of studied indifference, making sure only that India's Nehru was kept informed of what was going on, so that he could not later cry treachery...
...Oregon's Republican Senator Guy Cordon let it be known that he based his decision to run for a third term on the conviction that "the voters of Oregon should have an opportunity to express themselves on the questions of fundamental political philosophy...
...West's defensive cordon against Soviet aggression starts at the Arctic Ocean, sweeps down across Western Europe to the Mediterranean and into Turkey. There, in the vicinity of Mount Ararat, the West's defenses end-and Soviet opportunity begins. An offensive rolling through Iran and on to Iraq 120 miles away might easily overrun the West's advanced air bases at Habbaniya (Iraq) and Dhahran (Saudi Arabia). It might also outflank Turkey and open the back door to Europe...
...Hadj. At the Place de la Nation, a sudden rainstorm sent paraders and bystanders rushing for shelter. When police tried to hold back the stampede, the Algerians overwhelmed the barricades and began attacking with stones, bottles, chairs and broken barriers. Riot squads came sirening to the scene, threw a cordon around the Place de la Nation, opened fire with rifles. When it was all over, six Algerians and one French labor union secretary were dead, and some 130 people, including 82 cops, were injured...