Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying fields and radar-and 50,000 troops. The quid for Britain's quo would be Egypt's willingness to join Britain, the U.S., France and Turkey in a Middle East Defense Organization, pledged to the defense, not only of the canal, but of the entire Eastern Mediterranean...
...Today," wrote Columnist McCormick, "Italy is more important than it has ever been-a crucial spot in the cold war, a testing place of American policy, a center of Mediterranean defense and of Mediterranean problems, including the thorny issue of Trieste...
...Blood. Historian Prawdin starts his story with Temuchin, son of a minor tribal chieftain, who bound the wandering nomads of Mongolia into a military state. As Genghis Khan, chieftain of chieftains, he eventually controlled an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Himalayas...
...Laurence A. Steinhardt, onetime (1939-41) troubleshooting U.S. Ambassador to Russia who was killed in the crash of an embassy plane while Ambassador to Canada in 1950; and Air Force Major General Lucas V. Beau, 57, national commander of the Civil Air Patrol and wartime commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Transport Service in Africa and Italy; both for the second time; in Rockville Centre...
...Named for a Genoese admiral and prince (1466-1560) who cleared the Mediterranean of Barbary plates, freed Genoa from French rule...