Word: guards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since post-Spanish-American War days that U.S. troops had been ordered into Cuban territory, but the Navy thought it had no choice. Early in June, raiders from the rebel army of Fidel Castro burned the barracks of Cuban guards at the pumping station, jeopardized the water without which most of the 6,000 U.S. citizens on the base would have to move out in 24 hours. Base Commander Rear Admiral Robert Ellis conferred with U.S. Ambassador Earl E.T. Smith, who later talked with Cuban Minister of State Gonzalo Güell. It was agreed that if Cuba...
...counsel, delivered at century's turning point in brilliant books, such as The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 and The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future, was that the U.S. national interest was to secure overseas bases, trade routes, to guard them with unbeatable military power. In his day and since, Mahan's doctrine has been criticized as imperialism. But Mahan's quiet point-applicable in the Middle East today -was that overwhelming U.S. power ought to be deployed not for ill ends of world conquest but for wise ends...
...steadfastly refused to commit bis forces to an all-out assault against the pro-Nasser rebels, refused to commit himself firmly to cooperation with the Americans. President Chamoun reproached the general for this, and for stationing 23 tanks on the approaches to the city, as if to guard it against the marines. "Where did these tanks come from?" Chamoun asked Shehab, who had in the past pleaded that he was powerless to chase the rebels to their lair. There was no answer...
...unsuspecting young King and his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, 46, were getting ready to fly to Istanbul for an emergency meeting of the Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact. Seeing the gathering crowd, they went outside the palace. According to the rebels, the palace guard fired into the crowd, killed 14. The soldiers returned the fire. Feisal was killed, along with Crown Prince Abdul Illah, the Crown Prince's mother, two nurses and two palace guardsmen...
Popping from the train in East Berlin like a plump orange from a vending machine, Khrushchev reviewed a goose-stepping Wehrmacht-uniformed honor guard. At his side appeared dour Defense Minister Marshal Malinovsky, whose attendance had not been announced in advance but who explained that he was "spending a leave" in East Germany...