Word: deployments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be anxious to get even with Castro. The agency asked the three to use their contacts in Cuba to assess the chances that an invasion would set off a popular uprising against Castro. The CIA also assigned the Mafia to pinpoint the roads that Castro might use to deploy troops and tanks in meeting attacking forces. Bufalino, Plumeri and Granello ordered their old contacts on the island to set up a small network of spies and authorized part of the $450,000 to be used for paying them...
...major reason offered by the new editors of The New Republic in support of such invasion is that Arab oil states deploy their financial power "capriciously, adversely affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people ...." This, of course, is nonsense, quite unworthy of the editorial page of what used to be one of the finest organs for sanity in American life...
...super powers NOT the physical presence of both. The minimal participation of the super powers is achieved when they limit their roles to that of participants in the negotiation processes. To apply Walzer's argument universally is to argue that the Soviet Union and the United States should deploy troops everywhere in the world where conflicts arise. Yet, we know that his argument in favor of Soviet and U.S. military intervention as "peace makers" isn't meant to be applied throughout the world...
...addition, Butterfield last week took steps to require the airlines to adopt in 1975 a device that sounds an audible warning when the leading-edge flaps on a Boeing 747 do not deploy fully-the apparent cause of a Lufthansa accident in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov. 21 that killed 59 people. Again, Butterfield is open to criticism for not having acted sooner. There had been enough cases of flaps not extending on 747s well before Nairobi to cause British Airways to install such a warning device in 1972, even though none of the failures had at that point caused...
...Coventry. Tip-offs of enemy intent affected almost every phase of the war. During the Battle of Britain, Ultra's eavesdropping on Goring's scheme for using his 3-to-1 superiority in planes to "wipe the British Air Force from the sky" helped the R. A.F. deploy and husband its forces until the Luftwaffe, crippled too, abandoned the attempt. It was Ultra and not General Montgomery's much celebrated "intuition" that told when Rommel would strike at El Alamein, the turning point for the British in the North African desert war. As the D-day landings...