Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of it. the cable seemed an invitation to opportunity. The Chinese Nationalists certainly thought so-they voted against it in the U.N. The Russians appeared to think so-they withheld their veto so that the invitation could be transmitted. By their cheap conquest of one island outpost, the Red Chinese had, in a sense, persuaded the Western powers to sue for truce. Peking, without being asked to justify its behavior in any way, was being given the opportunity to use the U.N. as a forum to push its claim to Formosa and its demand for U.N. membership...
...cubic feet of rubble--inflicted on all of Germany. Destruction was a chastising lesson in itself but since the war the West Berliner has had newer reminders of totalitarianism right in his own yard. He can never forget that he is 200 miles from the nearest western outpost, that sudden disappearances are commonplace, and that 350 refugees pour into his sector every...
Last week TIME Correspondent Israel Shenker found Carrington at Yalemba, a jungle outpost in the Congo. There Carrington and his wife run a thriving mission school and are the guiding spirits of a community of some 500 natives. But John Carrington, 40, is now a missionary of another sort. Since only one pupil in ten knows how to speak on the drums, he has planned a special course to keep the ancient art alive...
...city, there was cloying uncertainty beneath a merciless summer sun. The familiar guns booming at twilight, the usual outpost skirmishes conveyed new menace to Hanoi's 300,000 people and the 100,000 refugees who poured in around them. About 20,000 Vietnamese have already left for Saigon, and 120 fly out every day (Air Viet Nam space is filled up for all July). Refugees from fallen Namdinh crowded aboard buses for Haiphong in the second phase of their exodus...
Racing barefoot over sharp stones, he escaped into the night. At dawn he saw familiar Mt. Stougara, and knew that the Greek border was only a short distance away. He skirted an Albanian outpost, and an hour later met a Greek army patrol...