Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paratroops, 70 Navy warships, 270 carrier-based Navy aircraft and 150 Air Force land-based aircraft into the Middle East within 72 hours began just before 2 o'clock one morning last week. Red-alert telephones jangled at the bedsides of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Chairman Nathan Twining, the Navy's Arleigh Burke, the Air Force's Thomas Dresser White, the Army's Acting Chief Lyman Lemnitzer (his chief, Maxwell Taylor, was on the West Coast on an inspection trip), the Marine Corps' Randolph Pate. The word from the Pentagon duty...
...President's decision, a second wave of telephone calls went out from the Pentagon. Before sunup more than 50 plans officers of all services were at their desks. When the Navy's Arleigh Burke steamed into his office at 7:30 a.m., he asked his staff for a full briefing, got it; on an order from Burke his staff began carting in briefcases and red folders containing long-prepared, frequently tested contingency war plans for the Middle East. Outline of the J.C.S. contingency plan for Lebanon: 1) move about 5,000 Marines of the Sixth Fleet into Beirut...
...Joint Chiefs met for the day's first joint session. Each officer was aware, out of years of military, diplomatic and economic study and experience, of the minuses of U.S. involvement in the oil-rich but base-poor volatile Middle East. The Air Force had run staff studies on locating strategic and tactical air bases in the Middle East, had come away convinced that the Middle East was so vulnerable to Russia's near-at-hand Ilyushin light bombers and tactical missiles that the U.S.A.F.'s strategic bombers ought to stay back in Spain and Morocco...
...saying that Dulles had arrived and was waiting in the President's office. The President adjourned the meeting and walked back to his office with Vice President Richard Nixon, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining, and a squad of other experts...
Dusan Simic, a staff writer for Borba, Yugoslavia's largest daily newspaper, was not "surprised when I got to America. We get almost all American films. The few we don't get," he added, "such as From Here to Eternity, are withheld by your country...