Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show of Force. Studying the reports of artillery duels, the inconclusive sea skirmishes and occasional dogfights between MIGs and Sabre jets, the U.S. sought to decide how serious were Communist intentions in Formosa Strait and concluded that even a probing action required an unmistakable response. The dispatch to Formosan waters of the U.S. carrier Essex-which in mid-July was helping to land marines in Lebanon-and the dispatch from Pearl Harbor of the big Midway the next day were ordered to make a show of force and to dramatize U.S. concern. As an added evidence of U.S. activity, Secretary...
President Eisenhower's quick anger swiftly communicated itself to the Pentagon, which found itself being turned inside out by buzzing brasshats trying to find out what all the shooting was about. They soon discovered that the original Post-Dispatch story had been vastly overblown, growing out of a highly theoretical study of the history and nature of national surrender, completely nonspecific as far as mention of the U.S. was concerned. It was inaugurated seven years before by the Rand Corp., a private research agency with Air Force contracts, and was finally published in book form last spring...
...second day of the General Assembly debate, new Jordanian Delegate Abdul Monem Rifai, brother to Jordanian Premier Samir el Rifai, did his best to pull the rug out from under one of the essential elements in any Middle East settlement. Jordan, declared Rifai, was flatly opposed to "the dispatch of U.N. forces or U.N. observers to be stationed on Jordan territory." But since young King Hussein's government would almost surely collapse overnight without foreign support, the question...
...Israel, unconvinced that U.N. support alone could keep Hussein on his throne, was plugging for a great-power guarantee of all existing Mideast frontiers. If Russia wished to be a Middle East power, let it be made to guarantee Israeli as well as Arab borders. ¶ India flatly opposed dispatch of U.N. troops to Lebanon and Jordan. One reason : India wants no precedents established for sending blue-and-white-helmeted U.N. forces into disputed Kashmir...
...pill that costs 15? looks like your best bet to protect against atomic-bomb radiation," read an A.P. dispatch last week out of Burlington, Vt., citing "top nuclear scientists." The A.P. went on: "You could store it in your medicine cabinet just like aspirin ... If you had 15 minutes' warning of an atomic or H-bomb attack, you could gobble one of the pills." Unfortunately, all this was Utopian wishful thinking...