Word: libya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piled up a remarkable record during his harddriving, eight-week trip. Of the 13 countries he visited, eleven wholeheartedly bought into the doctrine or registered their general approval. Among the outright subscribers are the four Baghdad Pact members (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan) and Greece. Saudi Arabia, with Lebanon, Libya and Ethiopia, have signed policy declarations expressing opposition to international Communism. Afghanistan, more circumspect because of neighboring Russia, welcomed the overall U.S. objective in the Middle East-national independence and economic betterment...
Cordiality in Kabul. Setting out in mid-March with six Washington-appointed aides and two secretaries, Richards started off with pro-Western countries: Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan. With apparent success he earnestly tried to clear away any suspicions that the Eisenhower Doctrine harbored hidden motives or involved any infringement of sovereignty. From Pakistan Richards flew to Afghanistan, which had declared itself neutral in the cold war and welcomed aid and technicians from neighboring Russia. At the end of three days in the chilly capital city of Kabul, Richards and Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan issued a cordial joint...
...started two years ago in Boston by M.I.T. Professors J. R. Zacharias and J. B. Wiesner as a consultant firm in long-range microwave communications. Now Hycon-Eastern is a contractor as well, has a $14 million contract to build a complete radio, telephone and TV communications network for Libya, is surveying a similar job in Thailand, dickering for contracts in Iran and the French Cameroons. The company has a crystal lattice filter for radios that will handle much higher frequencies at one-thousandth the cost of previous crystal lattice filters, has also developed an electronic time standard that varies...
...supporting ships. Bases will be maintained in Aden, Kenya, Singapore and Hong Kong. Medium bombers armed with atomic weapons will be based on Cyprus to meet Britain's obligations to support the Baghdad Pact countries. But British forces in Korea and Jordan will be withdrawn, and those in Libya "progressively reduced...
British manpower is to be cut by almost 50 per cent, down to 375,000 men, within the next five years under the plan which includes reduction of troops in Korea, Libya and West Germany...