Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furs and fisheries, copper and gold lodes. Though the fur-seal herds that drew the Russians to Alaska have long since been decimated, trappers still work the beaver streams and fox warrens of the wooded, game-rich Brooks Range. Prospectors gutted gold in billion-dollar lots from the Kenai Peninsula to the Yukon, but vast reserves of copper, coal and petroleum remain to be developed...
Thus encouraged, Nasser felt strong enough to make another play to extend his interests across the Saudi Arabian peninsula, perhaps hoping to add the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf to his coffers. His boardinghouse reach even stretches southward across the Gulf of Aden, where he is aiding Somali terrorists who lay claim to one-fourth of the northern territory of Jomo Kenyatta's Kenya. The Kenyan government, incensed by evidences of Egyptian aid to the rebels, called on Nasser to cease supplying them and said that it is ready to go to war with Somalia unless...
...Communist guerrillas supplied from neighboring Red-ruled countries. Greeks voted 2 to 1 in a plebiscite to call back George II from his wartime exile in London and to restore his throne. Though George died in 1947, his brother Paul, who succeeded him, traveled the breadth of the peninsula with his German-born wife Frederika, rallying support for the government. They went to the battlefront in Jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback and even took meals with the peasants in the countryside. The U.S. poured in $300 million in aid under the Truman Doctrine, and General James Van Fleet went...
...Presidents feel that he -and the U.S.-really understood their problems and wanted to help. That was no mean feat at Punta del Este, where Johnson was a very big fish in a very small pool. Employing the strictest security precautions in its history, Uruguay cordoned off the peninsula with 1,000 police and 600 soldiers, who allowed only accredited newsmen and diplomats to pass roadblocks. Guards stood on rooftops with high-powered rifles and studied the surroundings through binoculars. Security agents monitored each of Punta del Este's 4,000 telephone lines for any hint of possible assassination...
Casino Conference. The Presidents will find Punta del Este a delightful place in which to deliberate. A peninsula 85 miles east of Montevideo, it has miles of glittering beaches, pine-dotted lawns and flaming hydrangeas. The busy summer season-late November to March-has just ended, but an influx of 2,100 security guards, 1,800 newsmen and 2,000 diplomats and aides will make up for the departed vacationers. During the four days at Punta del Este, President Johnson is staying in a seaside white chalet called Beaulieu, which has been put at his disposal free of charge...