Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look at the accomplishments as we wind up the old year; 1954 could be called the Year of Settlements. The old grievances over the Suez Canal Zone, Iranian oil and Trieste were brilliantly negotiated and settled . . . EDC may be dead, but the Western European nations and their allies . . . have virtually completed the structure for Western defense, with German participation. The Indo-China war, which has long drained one of our allies, was halted (granted, not settled). True, the shadow of Asian Communism has continued to spread, is still moving rapidly and is as yet unchecked, so 1955 will...
...East Germany, in August 1950, six Communist functionaries, including the director of East zone railroads and the boss of Radio Berlin, were accused of "special connections with Noel Field, the American spy." All are now in jail or dead...
...luck that day, upon leaving the institute, to board the wrong elevated train. When the train stopped, I found myself in the Russian zone with a People's Policeman asking for identification. I thought first of the scraps of notepaper in my pockets, including what the Russian Encyclopedia has to say about the cardinals in Vatican City, which had amused me greatly while copying it down...
Upon the discovery that my identification did not allow me to be in the Russian zone, my People's Policeman conducted me unceremoniously to the police station. There I was put through a minor third-degree. After about an hour, I was taken to a barracks on the edge of a park. There the questioning began in earnest. How many American soldiers are there in Italy? Did I come from a rich family? Who paid for my studies and travel in Europe? What about the Nazis in South America? What about Guatemala? What do the people in West Berlin...
...last weekend ordered jet fighters to the Panama Canal Zone, where no jets have been based for the past six years. The move was aimed at stopping a projected invasion of Costa Rica by disgruntled Costa Rican émigrés, mightily helped by Nicaragua's tough strongman, Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...