Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Violence increased in both Algeria and Morocco. In Morocco, 700 Berber tribesmen burst out of the Atlas Mountains southeast of Fez and fell on the small French outpost of Imouzzer des Marmoucha. At exactly the same time, 90 miles to the north, other bands attacked the small town of Boured and two nearby outposts facing the border of Spanish Morocco. The besiegers cut roads, demolished bridges, held up French relief columns for six days before melting back into the hills. The attackers were highly organized, well armed, and skillfully directed by uniformed officers. The French bitterly charged that they were...
...Some observers guess that he longs for untroubled retirement. Others think he has lost his grip, may be forced out. A less wishful and probably sounder conjecture is that Ho has gone back to his old trick of standing behind the lines and quarterbacking Communist strategy for all Southeast Asia. Old revolutionaries may die, but with revolution to be done they do not just fade away. In Red eyes, there is revolution to be done in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaya, and across the Malacca Strait in Indonesia...
...exception is Okinawa. According to an official U.S. Army handout, Okinawa-based bombers "have a far greater flexibility in choice of target areas than those based in either Japan or in the Philippines . . . They can reach all important target areas within an arc which includes all of Southeast Asia, the whole of China, the Lake Baikal industrial area, eastern Siberia, and the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula." In other words, Okinawa is the spearhead of U.S. retaliatory power in the Far East...
Foreign Policy. Congress went all the way with the President. The Senate gave Ike authority to intervene in the area of Formosa. Overwhelmingly approved were the treaties for German rearmament, the end of Austrian occupation, and mutual defense with Southeast Asia and Nationalist China. Congress also gave the President strong bipartisan support on his journey to Geneva...
Sailboats drifted through an almost windless race off the Connecticut shore. Hurricane III was passing lobster pots now and narrow, leaning oyster-bed stakes, so the skipper could get a reading on the current. It was not up to pre-race calculations. Off Point No. Point, southeast of Bridgeport, he reduced r.p.m. again. Behind him, half a dozen skippers thought twice as they held to course and speed...