Word: overflights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Athens to Malta to join my husband, Captain Baldwin, skipper of U.S.S. Forrestal. Our reunions in both port cities were slightly marred during the wee hours of the morning as the captain awoke, shouting and pounding me under the assumption Russian Badgers were engaging in an overflight...
...only 13 miles from King Hussein's palace in Amman, the incursion was not unusual. Jordan's air force was destroyed in last year's Six-Day War, and Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority to strike back. El Fatah, the largest and most aggressive of the commando groups, had its operations headquarters in a half-acre grove...
...time, he was collecting air samples and trying to get an electronic reading on the heavy Soviet defenses on the island. As a result of the Sakhalin overflight, the U.S. is considering such precautionary steps as increasing the U2's navigational gear and limiting flights to good weather to avoid chances of error. But there are no plans to ground the U-2 altogether-its probing flights are considered vital to U.S. security...
...dangerous provocation. An act of perfidy!" cried the Soviet Union's Foreign Minister over and over, and more than one delegate at the big horseshoe table in the blue and gold Security Council chamber began to yawn. Even those disposed to deplore the U-2 overflight only chided mildly...
...claims the right to fly over the U.S.S.R., would it have to allow Soviet spy planes to fly over the U.S.? The Russians would have a strong case. The State Department seeks to deflect it by reminders that President Eisenhower has been working toward an internationally recognized right of overflight in his "Open Skies" plan offered at the 1955 summit conference in Geneva...