Word: refuelings
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...event of war, Dhahran might be useful as a place to refuel nuclear bombers or as a refuge for them after a mission, since it is a mere 850 air miles from the Soviet border. But a powerful clique of Saudi royal princes has been ceaselessly nagging the King to toss the U.S.A.F. out of Dhahran. The princes were eager to appease Nasser and other Arab nationalists who had used the King's sufferance of a U.S. base on Arab soil as an excuse for attacks on the Saudi royal family...
...eight" in 1957. "ten or fifteen" in 1958 and in 1959, and "one or two" in 1960. When the big order finally came. Powers picked up a sack of sandwiches from his wife and flew southeast with Colonel Shelton to Pakistan, stopping once to refuel along the way. ("I do not remember the name of the airfield. I think it could have been Bahrein.") His briefing from Shelton was short-an hour and a half in which "I barely had time to study my maps." Powers claimed no knowledge of two unmarked survivor maps and the plea in 14 languages...
...field whether any soldiers were on board. Assured there were none, the Katangans allowed the plane to land. "This is a free country, and we do not want the United Nations here," shouted Katanga's Interior Minister at Bunche as he prepared to depart. "You can refuel your plane and leave!" As Bunche walked up the steps into the plane, the Katanga troops trained their guns on him until the door was closed...
...winning car at Indianapolis is the one that combines top speed with a minimum time in the pits-a good pit crew can refuel and change all four tires in 30 seconds. For the past two years the winner has been the bright yellow, 380-h.p. Belond Special, designed, built and owned by Mechanic George Salih of Whittier, Calif. Salih took the standard four-cylinder Offenhauser engine used in most Indianapolis cars, installed it on its side at an 18° angle for cooler running and lower center of gravity. The idea was so successful that...
...refueling charges were concerned, U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Earl E. T. Smith declared flatly that "the base has not and will not refuel or in other ways service Cuban military aircraft engaged in military operations." But the charges were beside the point. The kidnapings were obviously to get publicity and make Batista look ineffective. In forcing the U.S. to negotiate directly with them for the prisoners' release, the rebels readily accomplished their purpose of the moment...