Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffered a setback. But the Communists haven't stopped fighting. They now have started another war-this time against Formosa. Planes have been engaged in the raids off the coast of China, and the word is that the Soviet navy is into the area where the U.S. Seventh Fleet is also engaged in some maneuvering...
...them together would not make one "Model Worker." But Mao was in a serious mood. ("He would make an outstanding labor negotiator," said Earn-shaw.) Blandly, he laid on the line his terms for coexistence. He wanted Attlee to ask the U.S. to 1) withdraw the U.S. Seventh Fleet and abandon its support of Chiang; 2) cease arming Japan; 3) cease arming Germany...
Last week, commenting on the Red bombardment of Quemoy, Assistant Defense Secretary Fred Seaton said: "We are alert to our responsibilities in the area, and certain of our units [from the Seventh Fleet...
...demands were fourfold and explosive: 1) America must withdraw the Seventh Fleet from the Formosa Strait; 2) America must cease arming Japan; 3) America must not be permitted to arm Western Germany; 4) Britain's Labor Party must "arrange a more reasonable foreign policy along such lines." Thus, after ten days of "bottoms-up" and rice-wine toasts to the Queen, Red China now showed the lotus-tour Laborites its hand: it hoped to enlist British Socialism -which got more popular votes than Churchill's Conservatism in the 1951 general election-in its campaign to "unify" Asia. Privately...
...week to be tried for rebellion and a string of other crimes including arson, murder, kidnaping and robbery. The defense asked the court to drop seven of the 30 counts against him on the ground that a 1948 presidential amnesty absolved these crimes. The prosecution agreed, even though the seventh count-involving the ambush murder of Aurora Quezon, widow of the onetime President-was committed a full year after the amnesty had been granted. Thereupon Taruc's three lawyers waived formal reading of the complaint and Taruc pleaded: "Guilty, Your Honor...