Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BERLIN--The Soviet army held a convoy of three U.S. Army trucks for 8 1/2 hours Friday. The trucks were stopped while seeking to leave isolated Berlin on a routine run to West Germany...
...halting of the convoy was the first such harassment since Soviet Premier Khrushchev Monday demanded that Western troops pull out of West Berlin...
...engaged in scalping himself, he bangs pans by day and bumblefoots around the local talent (Felicia Farr) by night, but hits stormy weather on both fronts. His chief cook (Walter Matthau), a sardonic old coot with a mania for cinnamon rolls, marries the girl. Then Cookie ships out for convoy duty, and Griffith finds himself heating up both the gal and the gallery...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8--The United States announced today a halt in its Formosa Strait convoy operations and readied an effort to make Red China's cease-fire a permanent...
...Moslems voted they were "committing suicide." From Cairo, headquarters of the new Algerian "government in exile," Premier Ferhat Abbas denounced the referendum as an "intolerable pressure" on the F.L.N.'s fight for independence. "Algeria is not France. The Algerian people are not French," he cried. A French troop convoy was ambushed 90 miles east of Oran and 19 soldiers killed; a portable polling booth was blown up near the Tunisian border; in Tlemcen, a crowd watching an election movie was sprayed with F.L.N. machine-gun fire...