Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...historic shores of Gallipoli. The tactical problem set for NATO's Operation Deep Water was to assume that Turkey had been invaded from the north, and in 40 days' fighting, the Turkish NATO forces had been theoretically forced back more than 60 miles to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Covered by planes and ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the Marines brought in by helicopter heavy gear that parachutists normally could not carry, and then set forth to smash enemy forward positions, wreck supply lines and create such havoc that the beleaguered Turkish defenders of Istanbul could start rolling again...
...Back is the first of half a dozen ambitious NATO maneuvers to be held in the next few weeks along a 5,000-mile arc stretching from northern Norway to southern Turkey. Operation Deep Water will see some 10,000 U.S. marines make a landing on the famed Gallipoli Peninsula, guarding the Dardanelles at Russia's back doorstep. Operation Counter Punch, in Central Europe, will call into action all NATO's air strength together with the national air-defense systems of Britain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands. All in all, more than 250,000 men, 300 ships...
...Hopes Advance Bay, on the eastern shore of the Ungava peninsula, Eaton had helicopters standing by to take the Krupp men on a flying tour over the rocky ridges where Eaton's engineers have blocked out a billion tons of low-grade (35%) ore in one concession, 750 million tons in another. They expected to look over the townsite at Hopes Advance Bay, where Eaton's ambitious blueprinters have planned a concentrating plant to convert the ore to pellets testing 65% iron...
Mutiny. About 300 navy men, defectors to the Castro cause, mutinied at dawn and quickly seized control of the Cienfuegos naval station, built on a peninsula in the town's harbor. They clapped pro-Batista officers in the brig and swept out through town in jeeps, carrying arms from the post arsenal. A 60-man troop of maritime police and some 200 pro-Castro civilians were waiting to join them. The rebels swept into Marti Park in the center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes...
Lunchtime Conversion. Just as surprising as such programs is the fact that the Fish Creek audiences do not seem to miss the standard festival war horses -the ones Johnson fondly refers to as "the old guys." Not long after Johnson took over the Peninsula Festival five years ago, a local matron murmured to him: "Next summer we won't have any more of this, will...