Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, Jack, Jackie and the kids played host to 2,000 underprivileged Washington children, who downed 200 gallons of cocoa and 10,000 sugar cookies while a detachment of Scotland's famed Black Watch Regiment of bagpipers skirled and twirled on the White House lawn. It was the beginning of Jackie's official appearances after the death of two-day-old Patrick Bouvier Kennedy last August...
...sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than the Grand Turk. He commanded a regiment in a foreign army...
...Bella. Unloaded at night from a pair of Cuban freighters in the Algerian harbor of Oran were at least four crated MIG jet fighters, 800 tons of ammunition, three field radio stations and more than enough Soviet-made weapons-including tanks, field guns, antiaircraft guns-to arm an armored regiment. Cuban soldiers accompanied the hardware. Neighborly Nasser also sent a pair of ships loaded with military equipment, and reportedly airlifted paratroopers direct from Cairo to the main Algerian staging area near the disputed border...
Only two days after Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Frankfurt repeated the U.S. pledge to maintain six divisions in West Germany, newspapers reported that the U.S. has "scheduled the withdrawal" of an armored cavalry regiment from Germany. Sooner or later it may indeed be withdrawn but not for the time being. Anyway, the 5,000-man regiment plus five other regiments were rushed to Germany at the height of the Berlin crisis in 1961 in order to reinforce the six U.S. divisions committed to NATO. These temporary reinforcements would all have been brought back after the crisis eased...
...excitement over a single regiment is a symptom of what Washington calls NATO's "double standard." German fears are understandable, but Europeans in general, Washington feels, expect the U.S. to meet its NATO commitments as a matter of course, while never coming near to fulfilling their own obligations in the alliance. As one U.S. official told reporters last week: "For a long time NATO has been a 20-mule-team wagon, with one mule pulling and the others sitting in the wagon. It is time for them to get out and pull...