Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mollet's maneuver was timed to coincide with the National Assembly debate on the government's demand for 150 billion francs ($428 million) in new taxes. Last week, as the Assembly Finance Committee tore up Finance Minister Paul Ra-madier's tax plan (indirect levies which would...
Michiko shot to her present eminence by a maneuver familiar to Hollywood: posing in the seminude. The daughter of an Osaka metal-shop owner, she arrived in Tokyo when she was 15 seeking a singing career, but was bluntly told by the first recording company she went to that she...
Sleepless Nights. The testing time had come. Caught up in the sand-blown vortex were all the spiraling, competing ambitions that agitate the Middle East. Jordan's real estate might not be worth much, but denying it to someone else mattered a great deal. Seen simply, the issue was...
A joint air, sea and land maneuver, Carib-Ex pulled together 17,000 men, 200 planes and 30 ships, making it the biggest U.S. military show in Latin America since the 1930s. As the landing force knifed inland, a swarm of helicopters deposited another Marine assault force near the vital...
As a training maneuver. Carib-Ex's theoretical goal was to drive an aggressor force out of the Canal Zone. But the show's main purpose was to build good will by impressing the Latin generals with the quick punch that the U.S. could bring to their .aid...