Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough, talented envoy who thrives on contrasts and postings where U.S. influence is, to put it mildly, mild. He underwent his apprenticeship as personal secretary to the late, gallant U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew (TIME, June 4, 1965) during the last stormy days before Pearl Harbor. As officer in charge of the U.S. embassy in Seoul in 1961, when General Chung Hee Park unseated the democratically elected President John Chang, Green outspokenly opposed the unconstitutionality of the new government, after which the State Department tactfully transferred him to Hong Kong as consul general...
...interests of keeping things quiet, Kennedy vetoed the original plan-approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff- for the exiles to land at Trinidad, a town on the southern coast of Cuba, 178 miles southeast of Havana with, as Schlesinger says, the "advantages of a harbor, a defensible beachhead, remoteness from Castro's main army, and easy access to the protective Escambray Mountains." But Kennedy thought a Trinidad landing would be "too spectacular...
Then things threatened to come unstuck again. Caamaño agreed to permit an OAS tanker to enter the rebel-held harbor one afternoon and supply a city power plant. But behind the tanker came an unexpected junta gunboat, bristling with 3-in. artillery and .50-cal. machine guns. If the junta's intention was to provoke an incident, it failed. Caamaño's troops held their fire, and the gunboat churned out of the harbor 45 minutes later. Next night, however, rebel troops started firing their rifles in the air, drawing fire from the junta side...
...rows behind her, James Krick aimed his still camera at the disintegrating wing. Others were not so calm. The four-and six-year-old daughters of Kaleo Schroder, a Richmond, Calif., schoolteacher, burst into frightened tears. Two older women became hysterical. Minoru Fujioka, a civilian worker at Pearl Harbor who was on the way home after enrolling his son in the Air Force Academy, prayed "for the first time in my life...
...Harbor Point is Michigan's most exclusive because the millionaire and blue-blooded families who live there guard their privacy well. Located on a point that juts out into Little Traverse Bay near Harbor Springs, Harbor Point does not even allow automobiles to intrude upon its seclusion. Instead they are parked at the entrance to the point, and the residents are delivered to their doors by a horse and buggy that makes a circle of the area every 15 minutes. The buggy also is used when residents visit their neighbors. There are some 70 homes on the point...