Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irritated in Athens. The loophole in the aid-to-Greece clause was big enough to drive a Patton tank through, and it was virtually certain that the Administration would do just that. Greece's role in NATO and the U.S. Navy's need for Sixth Fleet bases in the eastern Mediterranean could easily be construed as "overriding requirements." The net effect of the House vote, if the Senate concurs, would be to cut military aid to the colonels from Nixon's requested $118 million in this fiscal year to $90 million, the same level as last year...
Early this year, word seeped through the underground that the hippest new way to travel was overground-hitchhiking on the steadily growing fleet of 80,000 or so private American aircraft that are in service at any given time. Pilots of noncommercial planes found themselves confronted increasingly often by earnest youngsters holding signs that read "Boston," "Twin Cities," or simply "West" or "Europe"-and often the hitchhikers made it to their destinations. As a way of travel, hitchhiking by air is both adventurous and free, and has become popular enough to be declared illegal in Denver. To investigate the underground...
...newly organized guerrilla bands and the regular army. The Yugoslavs are especially anxious about the possibility of a new outbreak of fighting in the Middle East. They fear that the Soviets might seize on such a situation and, in the name of Socialist solidarity, demand bases for their Mediterranean fleet on Yugoslavia's Adriatic coast...
...Seventh Fleet patrols have been withdrawn from the Taiwan Strait, and there are almost no combat troops among the 8,900-man U.S. military force on the island. The overwhelming majority of the uniformed Americans on the island are service and supply personnel providing back-up for troops in Viet Nam, and it is generally assumed that they will be withdrawn as the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia winds down...
CARIBBEAN Bay of Piglets Revisited It was mocked as Britain's "Bay of Piglets," and one war correspondent cabled Fleet Street from the battlefield: "I say, chaps, the natives are friendly." That was two years ago, when then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent a company of paratroopers to capture the tiny (35 sq. mi.) West Indies island of Anguilla, a onetime possession cutting loose its British apron strings. The islanders had tried and rejected a British-sponsored association with the neighboring and more economically advanced islands of St. Kitts and Nevis; now they wanted to return to their colonial...