Word: station
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haven police station reported a steady influx of phone calls filled with cries of "Gestapo" and language "profane beyond all belief." A spokesman maintained that there had been no unneeded roughness and that, to his knowledge, no arrests had been made unfairly...
Near Thule, Greenland, and Clear, Alaska, the U.S. Air Force is quietly building two huge long-range radar stations designed to cover the Communist land mass from the Pacific to Poland and give early warning of Communist missile strikes at a range of 3,000 miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...
...radars inside mammoth 150-ft. domes-three at Thule, two at Clear-will track the incoming missiles, feed data on speed, course, etc. into computers to determine at what point the missiles are aimed in the U.S. The Air Force expects to build a third and close-in BMEWS station in Scotland to track missiles that might be fired westward across the Atlantic...
...archenemy, Planter Louis Dejoie, the defeated candidate in Haiti's mulatto-v.-black presidential elections in 1957. Dejoie confers daily with top rebel leaders, runs a program of incitement to revolt three nights a.week in French and Creole over Radio Progreso, a 5,000-watt Havana station. Fortnight ago, Dejoie announced a unity pact with rabble-rousing ex-President Daniel Fignole, a New York-based exile, and Dr. Clement Jumelle, who is hiding out in Haiti...
Along with an answer to the question, the reader also gets Marko's rationalization. "I am not my brother's keeper," he tells Captain Curtis. "I am interested in survival ... I do.not want to become a suburb of Cairo, or Moscow. A Chinese comfort-station ... I want to defend myself ... I want...