Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of keeping the Federal Government within its budget is as complicated as the Einstein theory plus Parkinson's Law. But the simple arithmetic that Budget Director Maurice Stans put on the public blackboard last week showed that the problem is getting well out of hand. The fiscal year is only 2j months old, but the budget is already...
...supplies on Shatou Beach. Nothing happens. Several times U.S. ra-darmen see blips easing out toward the convoy from Red jet bases on the mainland, but each time, as if pulled by invisible strings, the blips finally scoot back inland. The U.S. seems to have called the Reds' hand. No Communist gun has fired on Quemoy for three days...
...Nationalists airdrop small quantities of medical supplies to Que-moy's garrison. Admiral Beakley comes ashore to consider with Taiwan Defense Command's Vice Admiral Smoot "what to do now." Beakley admits: "We are back right where we started before we began convoying. They called our hand when they shelled the beach and got that LSM. The Chicoms' guns can and will blast anything on the beach until they are taken out. We could take them out and so could the Nationalists. But the decision to do so is a grave one and not for military...
...accept an ambassador as the U.N.'s "presence" in Amman, provided others were named for Cairo and Baghdad, too. Nasser had no objection to one in Amman, but to accept one in Cairo would be an admission that Nasser was guilty of something. That he rejected out of hand. In the face of such intransigence, Hussein concluded that a U.N. presence was no substitute for British troops. This week Amman announced that the British, whose aid was cut off at Jordanian request in 1957, had agreed to grant Jordan $2,800,000 in new funds...
...that there ever had been a "truce." In the previous week one British soldier had been killed and four wounded in a seven-hour gun battle in which they killed four EOKA men holed up in a barn near Famagusta; on the streets of Nicosia, a British airman walking hand-in-hand with his wife was murdered by three EOKA gunmen, who fired five shots from a passing taxi. From Royal Air Force headquarters on Cyprus had gone the order to airmen: "Keep your eyes open ... be ready to shoot at once . . . and shoot to kill...