Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LOUIS POST-DISPATCH...
WASHINGTON POST & TIMES HERALD...
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE...
...sooner had tall, weathered. 38-year-old Lieut. Colonel Harry Hadd of St. Paul set up his command post (code name: "Sick Leave") and identified his unit as the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Marine Regiment than one of his men appeared with a "Lebanese officer" in tow. Barked Colonel Hadd: "If he's not armed, let him loose." Thereupon the "officer" nervously identified his uniform as that of the Arab Airways and asked in English, "I know you're busy, sir, but could you tell us how long this will last? We have a lot of planes...
...Known as a leading anti-British cadet at Cairo's Royal Military Academy, Nasser graduated as a second lieutenant and was sent to command a platoon at a post up the Nile. It was the year of Munich, the year of Arab-Jewish rioting in Palestine, of U.S. company oil discoveries in Saudi Arabia...