Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syrian government obligingly kept up a drumfire of public accusations against Turkey and the U.S. Chief of Staff Afif Bizri charged that Turkish and U.S. planes from the Sixth Fleet were violating Syrian air space, and the Damascus press claimed that the planes had swept in over northern border towns at rooftop level to terrorize the population. Next day newsmen asked the Foreign Ministry's official spokesman if Syria planned a diplomatic protest. Astonished, the official asked who had reported the incident, was told Bizri had. "Well, that's a new one," said the official. The Turkish-Syrian...
...original Russian satellite is now circling in a path which favors viewing it from the far northern and far southern parts of the earth, where no Moonwatch teams are present. It cannot be seen in the Boston area...
Near the tobacco port of Samsun on Turkey's northern coast looms a huge tower-top radar eye that looks across the Black 'Sea and deep into Russia. Operated by General Electric Co. under contract with the U.S. Air Force, the eye tracks test missiles launched 700 miles away at Krasnyy Yar, Russia's version of Cape Canaveral, Fla. A vital source of U.S. intelligence about Soviet missiles, the Samsun radar picked up the 1,000-mile flight of an intermediate range ballistic missile in mid-1955, has detected five IRBM launchings a month over the past...
...reconnaissance raid into the North, a passel of Georgians gleefully stopped off in Seattle and Kansas City, Mo. last week, publicized a weird scheme for counterattacking the damyankees. As the schemers explained it, a Georgia nonprofit corporation, American Resettlement Foundation, Inc., is going to buy houses in upper-income Northern suburbs and rent the places cheap to Negro families hauled up from Georgia...
...Governor Orval Faubus kicked over the Democratic civil rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern view he would necessarily offend his Southern supporters. Jack Kennedy disagreed: he felt that he had to live up to his speaking commitment and, further, that he had to speak out on civil rights. Last week he did both with auspicious political results...