Word: outposts
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...first major battle of the cold war was waged over an isolated Western outpost behind Churchill's curtain: Berlin. In June 1948, the Soviets blocked all water, road and rail links to the city in an effort to prevent the Allies from setting up a unified government in the Western-controlled zones of postwar Germany. For the next ten months, U.S. Air Force C-54 and C-47 cargo planes landed at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport every three minutes, ferrying as much as 12,940 tons a day of food and fuel into the besieged city...
...obvious that there were deeper reasons for the American action. High among them was the fear that the Cubans, and by extension the Soviets, were establishing a military outpost in the Caribbean that could serve as a way station for ferrying Cubans to Africa and Soviet arms to Latin America. The U.S. was quick to highlight the cache of Cuban and Soviet weapons and numbers of military men found on the island. Vice President George Bush told TIME last week: "What we had felt about Grenada long before the brutal slaying of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was probably accurate. Cuba...
...cream proliferation is only part of the trend that threatens to transform the Square, once and for all, into a Quincy Market outpost. Over the past 20 years, the area has steadily shifted away form local shops and services toward national chains that cater primarily to students and tourists. In 1961, the Square boasted 12 tailors--now there is one. How did you feel the last time you had to get a pair of shoes fixed...
...bank building at Al Mahattah, the four-man security committee agreed to open the highway south of Beirut and to set up a joint liaison center at which cease-fire violations could be reported. The delegates, however, failed to concur on who would be stationed at the outpost or where it would be located. Meanwhile, there is disagreement over the "neutral observers" in the field who will watch over the ceasefire. The U.S., along with the members of the Multi-National Force (France, Italy and Britain), are pressing for a force of 600 that would in some way be affiliated...
...house searches in the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon, Tyre and Nabatiyeh. At least 100 people were arrested. Checkpoints along the coastal highway were the scene of huge traffic jams throughout the week as Israeli soldiers searched all vehicles. Even so, one bomb was set off near an Israeli outpost south of Sidon, wounding a soldier, and a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Israeli truck on the highway. Reflecting the jittery atmosphere, an Israeli colonel in Sidon pointed at an open window and barked at a visitor: "Either put on a bulletproof vest or stay away from that...