Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...then circling for days without ever knowing all of the reasons why. There was no uncertainty at all among the sailors and airmen of the Sixth Fleet ships that steamed watchfully in the eastern Mediterranean all last week. They knew from TIME'S cover story on the outbreak of civil war in Jordan (see cut), as well as from other sources, that Washington "was carefully leaking muted warnings of U.S. intervention"?and that the fleet was there to back up those warnings...
...Middle East, Richard Nixon had observed several times, is the greatest hazard to world peace because it could draw the superpowers closer to the ultimate conflict. The melancholy accuracy of his warning was established anew last week when Jordan's civil war threatened to go international. The column of tanks from the puny power that is Syria challenged more than King Hussein's army; it tested statesmanship and will in Washington, Moscow, and throughout the Middle East. Jordan's agony deferred still further any efforts to start Arab-Israeli peace talks...
...Administration's highest officials gathered in Virginia's Airlie House to honor Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who was given a "Statesman in Medicine" award. Henry Kissinger, the President's adviser on national security, received word that Hussein had marshaled his troops for a showdown with the fedayeen, that civil war in Jordan was imminent, and that the British Foreign Office was on the London-Washington line asking what the U.S. planned to do about it. Kissinger quietly but swiftly tapped those of the dinner guests who are members of the Administration's crisis-management team, the Washington Special Action Group...
...went on to Chicago, where he, Kissinger and Sisco spent 90 minutes discussing the memo. Nixon's deepest worry was that the Israeli troops perched on the Golan Heights and the West Bank of occupied Jordan might not resist the temptation to attack the commandos. Kissinger learned that full civil war had indeed erupted. He awakened Nixon at 3 a.m. with the bad news. Nixon decided not to inflate the crisis at that point by cutting his trip short and returning to Washington...
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