Word: tymbou
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...turn last weekwhen a grimy little two-stack transport flying the French tricolor putinto Limassol harbor. Moody Cypriots stared with astonishment as 1,400 blue-bereted paratroopers and 1,300 airmen moved without armed protection towards the tent city hastily built for them by theBritish near World War II Tymbou air base. If that did not give a clue to what was happening, the dispatch of another ship did. It was a 3,226-ton tanker named Bacchus, and it gurgled toward Cyprus with a full cargo of wine. The French had arrived in force on Cyprus...
...will take a 1,000-mile step across the Mediterranean from North Africa to bring its air bases nearer Russia. By arrangement with the British, the U.S. Air Force will take over the old R.A.F. airstrip at Tymbou, in the colony of Cyprus, a few miles southeast of Nicosia, the island's capital. A 3,000-man labor force will be recruited to rebuild the base for use by U.S. bombers, which will be only 600 miles from Russia's Black Seaports, less than 1,000 miles from Baku oil, Donbas coal and Dnepropetrovsk power...
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