Word: pentagonia
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...free tactical management of the negotiations, so long as he stayed within broad lines of policy laid down in July. Recently, however, Washington has had a queasy feeling that Ridgway was being too stubborn, and Washington decided to intervene. Somewhere between Foggy Bottom and the thick-carpeted rookeries of Pentagonia, a plan to break the deadlock over a ceasefire line was cooked up and handed to Ridgway. Last week Ridgway's men served it up, piping hot, to the Reds in the rain-soaked tent at Panmunjom...
...started. U.M.T. is designed for cold war that has cooled off. It is the Pentagon's plan for keeping up a supply of trained men in a time when the nation does not want, or does not need, a large standing armed force. It is one answer to Pentagonia's recurring fear: What happens if the U.S. gets "all dressed up with no place...
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