Word: zone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomats in Czechoslovakia have had the uncomfortable feeling that they were being followed. Two weeks ago the Foreign Ministry proudly produced results: British Air Attaché Group Captain Cedric Masterman and U.S. Air Attache Colonel D.E. Teberg, they said, had been "apprehended" in a "clearly demarcated forbidden military zone...
Dulles said it would be easier to win Russian acceptance of such an arctic disarmament plan than one covering a heavily populated European zone where there are political complications...
...piece of sky at a time. Harold E. Stassen, the President's Disarmament Adviser, informally suggested to Russia's representative, Valerian Zorin, that the powers might begin by trying out aerial inspection in 1) a patch of Europe between Amsterdam and Leningrad, and 2) a North Pacific zone including most of Alaska and a small piece of Siberia. Last week Zorin formally proposed a larger European area, centered farther west so as to include southeast Britain, all France and Germany, all of the satellites-but practically none of Russia itself. On the other side of the world...
Fort San Lorenzo, a ruined Spanish post high above the Canal Zone's Caribbean coast, was bright with brass one morning last week. To the strains of music from a military band some 500 senior officers from the U.S. and 18 Latin American countries munched doughnuts and sipped coffee, admired each other's uniforms (578 generals' and admirals' stars, in all), and kept a weather eye out to sea. Then from along the beach below, the shriek of jet planes and blast of simulated atomic bombs drowned out the music. As the planes carried out their...
...training maneuver. Carib-Ex's theoretical goal was to drive an aggressor force out of the Canal Zone. But the show's main purpose was to build good will by impressing the Latin generals with the quick punch that the U.S. could bring to their .aid in the event of real aggression anywhere in the hemisphere. Mindful of this role, the U.S. extended full military honors to the visitors, and Admiral Arthur Radford, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew down to play host...