Word: footholds
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...panic about the Soviet buildup in Cuba? Considering the fact that the U.S. has missile, bomber and military advisory groups stretching from England to Iran and from Okinawa to Southeast Asia, it is little wonder that the Soviets are anxious to get a little foothold of their own in "our" hemisphere...
...Frontier Foothold. It was no ordinary Indian pueblo. Out of the dirt came objects that had been used by 16th century Spaniards: bits of chain mail, parts of a helmet, an iron cannon ball, a carved piece of bone, a bronze candlestick base and the cover of a copper vessel probably used in celebrating Mass. Further digging exposed the plan of the old plaza, including the tracks of two dogs that had run across it once, at a time when rain turned the soil...
...buildings are showing through the soil, and with them appear fragments of glass that may have been parts of medicine bottles that the Spanish colonists carried with them into the wilderness. Nothing spectacular or beautiful is likely to be found, for San Gabriel was the crudest sort of frontier foothold. But enough has been located already to bring to life the days when the armored conquistadors rode up the great river from Mexico...
...advance. They had long boasted that, except for a few rebels, their Moslem "brothers" in Algeria really were as determined to stay French as they themselves were. They tried desperately to prove their point by moving out of their two city strongholds of Algiers and Oran and gaining a foothold in the Moslem countryside...
Coming from anyone else, this would hardly be clashed as surprising news. Coming from Sékou Touré, it was startling indeed, for Guinea's boss is the deep-dyed Marxist who gave the Communists their first foothold on the Dark Continent. He brought in the Poles to organize his public-works program, let the Czechs manage Conakry's harbor and advise the army, invited dozens of Red Chinese technicians to help with the rice crop. Most important, he welcomed more than 500 Russians who brought with them promises of credits of more than $56 million...