Word: guam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hijackings occurred. A group of C-130 transport planes was flown from Europe into Turkey. An airborne brigade had already been placed on semi-alert in Germany. At a later meeting, the group proposed moving a third carrier, John F. Kennedy, into the Med, and ordering the helicopter carrier Guam and its Marine landing team to leave North Carolina for scheduled NATO maneuvers in the Mediterranean a day early. Each move, as the Administration anticipated, was reported by newsmen. The sense of U.S. determination was now being deliberately heightened...
...reasoned that the cost to the U.S. in terms of Arab enmity would not justify trying to save Hussein. On military grounds, they considered landlocked Jordan a logistical nightmare. Moreover, at the height of the crisis, the Sixth Fleet had no way of transporting Marines into Jordan by helicopter; Guam and its choppers were still five days to the west. Militarily, however, the Chiefs had little objection to providing Hussein's troops with carrier-based tactical air support...
...Nixon Doctrine, first enunciated in July of 1969 on Guam, warned that friends of the U.S. must wage their own local fights with their own manpower. In most cases, the U.S. will back them only with arms and money. Nixon's plan to channel most foreign aid through international agencies rather than as funds dangling at the end of U.S. -held strings, is a similarly realistic relinquishing of power. The Nixon Administration has also proposed a more drastic curtailment of its worldwide defense establishment than is generally realized. In addition to the substantial withdrawals from Viet Nam, it has already...
...give up the two Algerian intelligence agents they had been holding. For its part, the U.S., which had dispatched Sixth Fleet ships with 1,500 battle-ready Marines to the Eastern Mediterranean when the planes were skyjacked, added more ships to the task force. Most notably, the helicopter carrier Guam, with combat Marines aboard, sailed from Norfolk naval base to join the fleet...
AUDREY W. CAMBA Agana, Guam...