Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish government, which has long cultivated the movie trade. Though it fatuously forbade Lean to play the Internationals during Zhivago's revolutionary skirmishes, Madrid laboriously rounded up turn-of-the-century rail equipment (still in use) and Russian weapons captured during the Civil War. It also promised a squadron of mounted police to play Moscow dragoons. When they didn't show, Lean fell back on some gypsy cavalry, who have already been Moors in El Cid, Boxers in 55 Days in Peking, Macedonians in Alexander the Great and Visigoths in The Fall of the Roman Empire...
...personnel from mobilization-ready military units to the standby reserve. This avoids the prospect that important officials and members of Congress might be marched off to camp when they would be needed in Washington. The order spells almost certain extinction for Capitol Hill's famed 999th Air Reserve Squadron, commanded by Major General Barry Goldwater...
...there's the wise, paternal President. He gets on the hot line to Russia's Premier when a bomber group, sent beyond its fail safe point through a mechanical accident, enters Soviet territory. Despite American and Russian efforts to recall and later destroy the squadron, one plane bombs Moscow. The President must demonstrate dramatically America's lack of animosity toward Russia and prevent total disaster. So he orders another bomber to destroy New York...
...there had obviously been serious security lapses. Before his first arrest in 1959, Jenkins had at least two security checks. In 1956 the Air Force gave him top-secret clearance in connection with his reserve status; he is a colonel in Capitol Hill's 9,999th Air Reserve Squadron, whose commander, of all people, is Reserve Major General Barry Goldwater. Two years later...
...heard details of the latest attempted coup to come off the Iraqi assembly line. It was scheduled for noon last Sept. 4 as Aref and most of his Cabinet boarded a Viscount turboprop en route to the Arab summit at Alexandria. The Viscount was to be escorted by a squadron of six MIG fighters of the Iraqi air force-and all six pilots were members of a Baathist cell, who had agreed to blast the presidential plane to bits as it took...