Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said he will rent to all comers after the Royal Navy pulls out in 1971. The big question in the Mediterranean is whether the Russians will move into the Algerian naval base at Mers-el-Kebir, which the French evacuated last month; it is only 315 miles east of Gibraltar. Russians have also used their influence with the Arabs to set up secret stockpiles of spare parts within trucking distance of Arab ports...
...night, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker was whisked from his villa to a secure haven for the second time in three weeks. So was President Nguyen Van Thieu, as fears spread of Viet Cong again rampaging through Saigon. Six 82-mm. mortar rounds exploded outside the U.S.'s "Pentagon East" headquarters, where General William C. Westmoreland was sleeping. The commander was not hurt, but shell fragments wounded four sentries...
...majority of Britain's 1,000,000 Commonwealth immigrants entered the country legally. Half the members of East Africa's 400,000-strong Asian community, for example, are entitled to British citizenship. Since Kenya has started discriminating against its Asian population, giving their jobs to Africans and boycotting their shops, Asians are fleeing to Britain at a rate nearing 3,000 a month. Immigrants from other Commonwealth countries came under the 1962 Immigrants Act, which introduced a system of work permits and restricted the annual total of worker immigrants...
...MIDDLE EAST Israel Strikes Back Israel and Jordan became involved last week in the heaviest fighting since the cease-fire in June. In those eight months, the Israeli government had counted 91 separate incidents along the Jordanian border. Then the Jordanians suddenly stepped up the violence. Sporadic artillery duels sent kibbutz dwellers in Galilee scurrying for cover and killed 17 Arabs in a refugee camp near the Allenby Bridge. Three mortar shells exploded in Jerusalem. Bazooka shells landed near the airport at Lydda...
...positions with merciless accuracy. The Arabs brought up reinforcements and pounded back, turning great patches of Israeli farm land into rolling seas of flame. Then the Israelis called out their air force. For nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm on the East Bank. They destroyed a guerrilla base, damaged several towns, terrorized Arab refugee tent-camps and knocked out gun emplacements as far inland as Irbid, 20 miles away on Jordan's arid central plateau...