Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as the U.S. troops moved to prevent the fire from spreading, Washington was well aware that the very fire fighting itself would scatter embers in a highly explosive area. But U.S. policymakers believed that the alternative of letting the fire spread through Lebanon and Jordan would weaken the free world's whole system of alliances, would weaken also all small pro-Western governments from Morocco to the Pacific. Under the circumstances, and in the light of the West's inability to answer free Hungary's call in 1956, the President's duty to act promptly...
...fire, and regardless of what has gone before, our country is now committed to a realistic facing up to the Middle East muddle...
...black Cadillac, marched (in small groups) into the capital, their arms as inconspicuous as possible, and took up posts around the city. Some Lebanese cheered, but most looked on expressionless. On the second night, marines stationed at an outpost two miles south of the airport returned small-arms fire from four rebels, with no casualties on either side. Two marines who took a wrong turn in their jeep were seized by rebels, questioned by a man who identified himself as a "schoolmaster," and after steadfastly saying "I don't know" to all questions about why they were there, were...
...general says he is afraid his army will disintegrate or that some of his troops will open fire if the entire column advances in one body . . . The general says he is willing to cooperate, but he wants you to proceed in small groups...
Then, in a series of spectacular flashes, the overheated Middle East took fire: pro-Nasser army officers overthrew Iraq's pro-Western monarchy, and within 40 hours U.S. marines moved into Lebanon. The absentee arsonist looked with an appraising eye on international wind and weather; given an unexpected change, his own house might be in danger of going up in the conflagration. For 72 hours the world assumed Nasser was still aboard the yacht, but not a word was heard from him. Then his official Middle East News Agency put out a terse summary of his surprising change...