Word: formosae
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...reinforced the Seventh Fleet, already the greatest concentration of fire power ever in the Western Pacific, stripped down the Formosa defense command for action, added supersonic Lockheed F-1048 and the Army's Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles to Formosa's arsenal, then sent Pacific Commander in Chief Admiral Harry Felt to Formosa for conferences and inspection...
Like the old pros they were, both men opened aggressively. Beam demanded an immediate cease-fire in the Quemoy area and renunciation by Peking of the use of force in the Formosa Strait. Wang countered with a demand for immediate withdrawal of Chinese Nationalist troops garrisoning the Quemoy and Matsu Islands and an end to U.S. military support of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...Tacon was flagged down by state police on a California highway. To General Tacon's intense surprise, the cops showed no interest in the fact that he was doing 70 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. Their mission was to tell him that he was wanted in Formosa-immediately...
...these and a thousand similar peremptory devices, the U.S. had poured 5,000 airmen, sailors, and marines into Formosa in the four weeks since Red China began its attack on Quemoy. (There were already 4,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in the island when the crisis started.) Items...
...airfield in northeast Formosa, men of a U.S. air base squadron, only ten days out of Johnston Island, wearily completed construction of an electrified tent city. Within revetments nearby stood stubby, missilelike F-104 Starfighters, the world's fastest (1,400 miles an hour) operational aircraft. Never before deployed outside the U.S., the Starfighters were knocked down and flown into Formosa unassembled two weeks ago; last week they were already flying over the Formosa Strait. Said one pilot: "It must have scared the pants off the Reds when they saw this bird move across their radar screens the first...