Word: outpost
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...assume the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. As the Watergate scandal engulfed Nixon, Bush worked hard to reduce the damage to the party. His efforts won him the friendship of Gerald Ford, who in 1974 named Bush chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. In that lonely outpost, Bush and his wife Barbara-their five children remained in the U.S.-have with their informal manner made friends among the Chinese. They take bicycle tours around the city, play tennis at the international tennis club, and give hamburger and hot-dog parties on the grounds of the American compound...
Leading the marchers across the border was Moroccan Premier Ahmed Osman; with him were several Cabinet ministers, and visiting delegations from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Gabon. Once inside the Sahara, they stopped at the white-domed outpost at Tah, which had been abandoned just a few days earlier by the Spanish when they pulled back their troops. After kneeling in prayer, the group of VIPS headed back into Morocco. Gendarmes then gave a signal, and thousands of Moroccans-wearing everything from djellabas to soccer uniforms-poured across the border...
...bodyguards of Phalangist Leader Pierre Gemayel. When retreating Phalangists took up positions in the hotel district, the conflict took on an added symbolic intensity. "I'm going to sleep in the Holiday Inn tonight," pledged one strutting Moslem fighter as he prepared for an assault on the Christian outpost. By week's end the Phalangists still held what became known as the "hotel front...
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to Harvard's proposal could prove to be a shortage of federal funds for development of the entire navy yard in such a manner that a Kennedy Museum won't look like a civilized outpost in a boarded-up town...
Since Israel's creation, her interests and those of the U.S. have coincided. This is no less the case today. Mr. Richardson's allegations referring to Israel as an outpost of U.S. imperialism is reminiscent of those who popularized the "Protocols of The Elders of Zion," the forgery designed to "prove" the existence of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy. On this account, he is as perceptive as General George Brown was in stating that the Jews own the banks and newspapers in this country...