Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instrumentation was ready. In separate control posts, the Air Force deputy, Brigadier General John S. Samuel, and the Navy deputy, Rear Admiral Lloyd M. Mustin, checked their radarscopes: all ships, all planes were in position. No unwanted craft had strayed into the danger zone. At 5:45 a.m. (Christmas Island time), the countdown reached zero. The B-52 dropped its nuclear payload. A flash pierced the haze. The tests had begun...
...group of U.S. troops, the lull was especially welcome. These were the men of the U.S. military mission- in Potsdam, deep inside the Soviet zone southwest of Berlin. Three weeks ago East German police machine-gunned a mission staff car, narrowly missed killing the two Americans inside. Immediately, U.S. European Army Commander in Chief General Bruce C. Clarke demanded an apology from his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. When Konev's reply proved "unacceptable," Clarke hung a huge padlock on the gate of the Soviet mission in Frankfurt, posted a communications truck near the entrance to report every...
Within four years, she starred in 21 pictures, some of them with Hollywood companies working abroad. She bared her north temperate zone in Two Nights with Cleopatra and her subtropics in Woman of the River. But the great moment of that early phase of her career came when she played a sponge diver in Boy on a Dolphin. Following the custom of native girls in the Greek islands, she lifted her skirt toward her hips, tucked it between her legs, and pinned it in back to her belt...
...tests, the air we breathe, the milk we drink, the food we eat?" cried Egypt's Foreign Minister. Some "neutrals" had well-meaning but irrelevant proposals of their own to make: Ethiopia's Acting Foreign Minister Ke-tema Yifru pleaded that Africa be declared an "atom-free zone"; Sweden's Foreign Minister Osten Unden plumped for a "provisional" test moratorium without any safeguards...
...general and complete disarmament), the U.S.'s Dean Rusk suggested an intriguing scheme designed to soften Russian fear of inspection "espionage." It was similar to the plan of random geo graphical samplings proposed by Harvard University's International Law Professor Louis B. Sohn. Under the "Sohn Zone" system, each country would be divided into a number of areas; once the nuclear nations had reported their total number of weapons in each area, an international disarmament organization would choose a zone at random for minute inspection. The theory is that Russia (or any nation) could be certain that most...