Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aleutian Islands and Italy, also served in hot spots from Anzio and Ardennes-Alsace to the Rhineland and central Germany. In the Korean war, he ended up as Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor's chief of staff. He directed U.S. Army and Marine forces in the landings in Lebanon in 1958. Last fall he was the key commander in the huge "Operation Big Lift" that sent 15,377 men and 445 tons of combat equipment to Europe in 63 hours...
...freshman class yesterday elected William Kamal Dabaghi, of Weld Hall and Huntsville, Texas; Harold E. Krents, of Wigglesworth Hall and Scaisdale, N.Y.; and W. Walker Lewis, of Hollis Hall and Lebanon, Ohio, to one-year terms on the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs...
Gibson expects John Chaffee to sweep the ten-mile cross country race this weekend. As evidence for his optimism, he points to Chaffee's victory in the Lebanon Valley Nordic Meet...
...Gaulle has also warned that he will retaliate by making life "unendurable to those inflicting" slights on France. He recounts with relish that when he felt the British, with U.S. backing, were elbowing France out of Lebanon and Syria, "the way the Anglo-American powers were behaving toward us justified our throwing a pebble into their diplomatic pond." The most recent pebble thrown by De Gaulle was brick-sized and caused quite a splash. He also believes France is better equipped to win support from small nations than either the U.S. or Russia, because "many states and world opinion instinctively...
Died. Sheikh Bechara el Khoury, 74, first President of independent Lebanon from 1943 to 1952, who spearheaded his country's revolt against the French, gave it one of the Middle East's few stable regimes, but was forced to resign when opposition politicians charged (but could not prove) that his family was profiting from government deals in everything from cement to gold; of cancer; in Beirut...