Word: zone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiations, obtained terms highly favorable to his country. Among other things, Panama gets: 1) an increase from $430,000 to $1,930,000 in its annuity from the U.S., 2) several parcels of valuable real estate, 3) the right to collect income taxes from some 19,000 Canal Zone employees who are not U.S. citizens...
...Delicate Decision. Malskat's testimony soon brought other reputations tumbling down. The red-faced church superintendent asked to be retired. Lübeck's art director suddenly decided to move to Germany's East Zone. His assistant was abruptly pensioned...
...foot powder to field telephones, from halftracks to water-purifying halazone tablets. "Annihilation of the enemy," said Picado defiantly, "is the modern doctrine of war." But after eleven days of fighting, most of his troops, punished by the Mustangs and harassed by the Loyalists, stumbled into the borderline buffer zone created by the Organization of American States. Back in San José, President Figueres, referring to West Pointer Picado's tactics, chortled: "You can send them to school, but you can't give them brains...
...Vorkuta, each camp is surrounded by a twelve-foot-high barbed-wire fence. Inside the fence is a prohibited zone within which the guards in the towers shoot at sight. There are powerful arc lamps every 10 or 15 yards along the wire and during the long hours of winter darkness the prohibited zone is as bright as day. Beyond the camp is the tundra, where guards sit in camouflaged dugouts scanning the undulating landscape with field glasses, and slow-flying biplanes circle looking for suspicious movement. The Komi receive a reward for every escaped prisoner they hand over...
...heal the breach of peace, the O.A.S. used energy, speed and a historic new tool: armed observation planes supplied by the U.S. Navy from the Canal Zone. Sent on the sole authority of the U.S., such police planes would have been unthinkable Yankee intervention, but the O.A.S. as an international body was able with heightened prestige to accept the offer of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland, U.S. Latin American affairs chief. Flying over rebel territory, the investigation commission learned enough to dispose firmly of Somoza's claim that his country had nothing to do with the invasion. They...