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...intelligence officials, according to Nathan, were concerned about the future of the half a dozen U.S. electronic monitoring faculties in Australia that maintained watch over the Soviet Union, and especially its missile testing. The most important of these installations, by far, is at Pine Gap, a desolate sprawling base in central Australia, twelve miles from fabled Alice Springs, that employs some 250 Americans. The supersecret station helps pinpoint potential Soviet military targets and collects information from U.S. spy satellites orbiting overhead...
Nathan offers other motives for Kerr's action. The lease for the base at Pine Gap was scheduled to expire on Dec. 10, Nathan says, and Whitlam had hinted that he might not renew the lease agreement with the U.S. In response, the CIA sent the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) a blistering cable. It said, in substance, that the U.S. agency might be forced to cut its ties to ASIO. The next day Kerr sacked Whitlam. Nathan notes that Kerr, an Australian-born lawyer, had been active in cultural front organizations funded...
Pinney moved to vaulting when he entered Frontenoc Secondary School in tenth grade, though his first vaulting experience came two years earlier when he cleared an eight-foot high clothesline using a pine tree as a pole...
...restraint the couple exercises in selling their Scotch pine at only $18 per tree, like the no-advertising policy, stems from their philosophy that, as Mrs. Hansen says, the tree farm "just makes Christmas extra special...
Despite the sense of holiday cheer that pervades these family operations, one malady annually casts its shadow, like a tall Scotch pine. In recent years, an increasing number of tree thefts have plagued growers...