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Bonanza (1959–1973)
The Medal
TV-PG 1h Western Episode aired 26 October 1969
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Very good episode
6 October 2006
A very young Dean Stockwell plays Matthew Rush, an ordained minister and Civil War Medal of Honor winner. Rush has fallen on hard times and tries to buy a drink in a saloon by trading his medal. The bartender refuses and Ben Cartwright comes to the rescue, recognizing the significance of the medal.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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248 - Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Regarding Mutual Security Assistance to Yugoslavia.
October 16, 1956
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Sugar Dirt"
20 April 1996
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US Marine Corps General Weirick: Colonel, I know you to be a student of military history. What is your counsel?
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US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: In the Second World War, the Japanese committed their finest troops to protecting the island of Guadalcanal neglecting the strategic importance of New Guinea. Our Marines were on their own for eight months while the Allies exploited the Japanese mistake. It broke the back of the Nippon Offensive. After the Canal, we took the war to them.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-07/news/mn-1701_1_iraqi-ministry
Los Angeles Times
U.N. Inspectors in Standoff at Iraqi Ministry
July 07, 1992 From Reuters
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The head of a United Nations inspection team locked in a standoff with Iraqi authorities over access to a government ministry broke off her vigil Monday to inspect another site on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Team leader U.S. Army Maj. Karen Jansen took most of her 16-member group on an unannounced visit to the new site but left five inspectors in a car on guard outside Baghdad's Agriculture and Irrigation Ministry.
Nineteen hours after it began, there was no sign of a compromise in the standoff at the building--the first Baghdad ministry headquarters that U.N. inspectors have demanded to enter.
In Washington, the State Department deplored Iraq's stance and demanded immediate access to the building.
"Once again the government of Iraq is refusing to comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions," the State Department spokeswoman, Margaret Tutwiler, said.
"We deplore Iraq's failure to meet its obligations and emphasize that the Iraqi authorities must allow this inspection to proceed immediately," she told the regular briefing for reporters.
Jansen and her team, who are monitoring destruction of Iraq's chemical warfare manufacturing facilities, demanded access to the ministry on Sunday morning under U.N. Persian Gulf War cease-fire resolutions.
Employees were freely entering and leaving the building, and there was no sign of security forces or police in the area.
Before leaving for the new site, Jansen said she was waiting for a decision from New York on the next step in the standoff. The Security Council Monday demanded Iraq immediately permit U.N. inspectors to search the ministry for weapons information.
Iraqi officials say the ministry is a civilian institution unconnected with weapons of mass destruction, which the U.N. inspectors are empowered to destroy.
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[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[S.J. Res. 54 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]
2d Session
S. J. RES. 54
JOINT RESOLUTION
Finding the Government of Iraq in unacceptable and material breach of its international obligations.
Whereas on July 5, 1992, Iraq denied UNSCOM inspectors access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture, resulting in a Security Council Presidential Statement of July 6, 1992, which declared that Iraq was in ``material and unacceptable breach'' of its obligations under UN resolutions;
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-27/news/mn-4334_1_persian-gulf
Los Angeles Times
U.N.-Iraq Accord Ends Threat of Allied Strike : Persian Gulf: Baghdad agrees to allow reshuffled inspection team into Agriculture Ministry. Bush vows to keep up pressure on Saddam Hussein.
July 27, 1992 ART PINE and DOUGLAS JEHL TIMES STAFF WRITERS
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations and Iraq on Sunday resolved their dispute over access to the Iraqi Agriculture Ministry, ending the threat of an allied air strike, but President Bush warned that the West will maintain pressure on Baghdad until it stops violating other U.N. resolutions as well.
The eleventh-hour agreement, announced jointly by Iraqi authorities and Rolf Ekeus, head of the U.N. commission charged with overseeing Iraq's disarmament, was essentially a face-saving measure for both sides, involving a modest reshuffling of the inspection team that Baghdad had barred before.
Ekeus and Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Abdul Amir Anbari, said the pact calls for the U.N. team to resume inspection of Iraq's weapons archives on Tuesday, with Ekeus present for the entry to the Agriculture Ministry building. The U.N. envoy left New York for Baghdad late Sunday.
But the accord left unanswered the question of whether the Iraqis had relocated some of the archives that the U.N. inspectors initially sought. And it did not even address other Iraqi cease-fire violations that the United States has criticized, such as the army's recent aerial bombings against Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq.
Bush, returning to the White House on Sunday evening after a weekend at Camp David, Md., grudgingly accepted the accord as a modest step forward.
During a brief press conference on the White House lawn, he contended that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had "caved in" to U.N. demands "after a lot of bluster" and that the three-week-long standoff over the Agriculture Ministry "now has been resolved."
But Bush also made clear that the United States will not relax its pressure on Iraq until Hussein stops violating a spate of other U.N. resolutions. And he indicated that he would not withdraw the large U.S. military contingent that has assembled in the Gulf region over the past several days.
"Our argument is with Saddam Hussein--the bully, the dictator, the brutal merchant of death," Bush said. "Behavior along the lines of that we have just witnessed will not be tolerated." He added that until Hussein complies fully, "there'll be a lot of tension" between him and the West.
Besides the dispute over entry to the Agriculture Ministry, Bush also listed Iraq's refusal to negotiate over its post-Gulf War boundaries, to return Kuwaiti property and to end military attacks against the Kurdish and Shiite minorities.
The Administration has been contending for several days that Iraq has violated U.N. demands on a broad range of resolutions. Earlier Sunday, Brent Scowcroft, Bush's national security adviser, had described the Agriculture Ministry dispute as "just the tip of the iceberg."
As a result, senior Administration analysts predicted that the President is likely to order continued pressure on Iraq, both through stiffer enforcement of trade sanctions and through a far more visible allied military presence in the region, to embarrass Hussein.
One analyst conceded that, although the two sides seemed to have struck a compromise in Sunday's accord, the allies lost some face. "The Administration is going to have to come up with some stuff to make it work or the coalition is going to have problems and lose more ground to Saddam," he said.
It wasn't immediately clear how the President's response would play politically at home. The standoff did give the President a chance to play the role of a commander in chief. However, while the incident marked the fourth time since the end of the Gulf War that Hussein's defiance has pushed relations with the West to the brink of confrontation, he has yet to pay a military price.
At the same time, the President was in something of a box following the announcement of Sunday's accord. With Ekeus publicly declaring the crisis over, it would have been difficult politically for Bush to launch an air strike. Many Americans favor such action only with U.N. backing.
The narrowly drawn accord followed four days of intense negotiations between Ekeus and Anbari that involved numerous calls to Baghdad and left Ekeus plainly frustrated over the inadequacy of the Iraqi response. Even Sunday's assent arrived several hours later than expected.
In essence, the plan calls for replacing some members of the inspection team that previously was laden with Americans, British and French with weapons experts from countries that did not take part in the Persian Gulf War against Iraq in 1991.
Under the agreement, the Iraqis will allow a new six-member inspection team--made up of experts from Germany, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and Russia--to enter the Agriculture Ministry building to identify the documents that it wants to examine.
The records then will be transported to a second site, where they will be reviewed by a group of weapons experts, apparently including two Americans. Five members of the earlier inspection team who were moved to Bahrain for their safety last week will be allowed to return to Baghdad.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-27/news/mn-4334_1_persian-gulf/2
Los Angeles Times
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U.N.-Iraq Accord Ends Threat of Allied Strike : Persian Gulf: Baghdad agrees to allow reshuffled inspection team into Agriculture Ministry. Bush vows to keep up pressure on Saddam Hussein.
July 27, 1992 ART PINE and DOUGLAS JEHL TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Ostensibly to accommodate Iraqi "sensibilities," the inspectors will not physically enter the private office of the Iraqi agriculture minister. Baghdad had complained that allowing foreigners to inspect a minister's office would be degrading and a violation of national sovereignty.
The accord also did not guarantee the safety of the inspectors in the weeks to come. One of the major elements in the Iraqi-U.N. dispute was that the inspectors had been subjected to violence and intimidation, apparently with the government's approval. The team eventually was forced to move out.
The standoff began July 5, when Iraq barred the U.N. inspectors from entering the Agriculture Ministry building. U.N. officials suspected that the structure was being used to house archives on Iraqi missiles and nuclear weapons production.
Under the provisions of the Gulf War cease-fire accord, U.N. inspectors have the right to examine any records they wish in an effort to ensure that Iraq no longer possesses missiles and other weapons of mass destruction, particularly those involving nuclear, chemical or biological warfare.
For all the satisfaction Iraqi officials expressed with the new accord, Hussein himself seemed to intensify his defiant rhetoric on Sunday, boasting in a radio address that the "mother of all battles"--the term he used for the Gulf War before he was defeated--is still not over.
He also met with his top military and political leadership--members of the Arab Baath Socialist Party and the Revolutionary Command Council--but no decisions were made public, according to a report by the state-run Iraqi News Agency.
The meeting, Hussein's third Cabinet session in the last three days, was clearly timed to weigh the possible consequences--including a threatened U.S.-led air strike--of Iraq's steadfast refusal to permit U.N. weapons inspectors inside Baghdad's Agriculture Ministry building.
Hussein's declaration, designed to shore up his image in the face of mounting pressure from the West, was almost identical to a similar brief speech he made shortly after his forces fled Kuwait during the allied ground offensive that ended the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
"May you be cherished by God, and may he keep the flag of the principles you fought for in the 'mother of battles' always hoisted," he said, in comments clearly meant for a domestic audience that had been told for weeks that any U.N. searches of the Agriculture Ministry would violate Iraq's sovereignty.
Hussein's boast that the "mother of all battles" is still not over drew a sharp rejoinder from Bush. The President told his news conference that "he'd better hope it's over" because Hussein had suffered humiliation by the West in the eyes of the Iraqi people.
Administration analysts were pensive over the implications of Sunday's compromise with Hussein. A senior Pentagon Mideast specialist said that while the standoff at the Agriculture Ministry had been defused, the West still will have to "find some way to get him to comply" on other issues.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-29/news/mn-4667_1_search-team
Los Angeles Times
U.N. Team Searches Iraqi Ministry : Inspections: Clues to weaponry sought as demonstrators march in Baghdad.
July 29, 1992 MARK FINEMAN TIMES STAFF WRITER
MANAMA, Bahrain — A team of U.N. weapons experts started a systematic, room-to-room search of the unassuming ministry building in downtown Baghdad that brought Iraq near the brink of war, as tens of thousands of Iraqis marched through the streets of their capital Tuesday shaking their fists and shouting, "Bush, Bush, listen with care! We all love Saddam Hussein!"
The chanting in the streets, backed by continued angry rhetoric against the United Nations and President Bush in Iraq's state-run media, initially alarmed the international team of nuclear, chemical and ballistic weapons inspectors, who arrived in Baghdad from Bahrain on a pre-dawn flight Tuesday morning.
But Iraqi authorities, who barred traffic from many downtown streets to permit the mass demonstration, prevented the marchers from reaching the Agriculture Ministry, site of the search. And the chairman of the special U.N. commission authorized to dispose of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction said later that the Iraqi leadership had promised to protect the safety of his team.
Chairman Rolf Ekeus, who led the small group of European inspectors into Iraq, told a news conference in Baghdad that the cease-fire agreements ending last year's Persian Gulf War allow U.N. searches in every room of any structure suspected of containing documents or equipment related to Iraq's ambitious weapons procurement program.
"We intend to use this right," he said, then quickly added, "but respect Iraqi sensitivity."
Iraqi police cordoned off the block surrounding the Agriculture Ministry as the search began, barring even the media from watching the exercise, which Ekeus had indicated would be over "very quickly," presumably within days.
The building had been left unobserved by U.N. personnel for a week after a previous, American-led team of U.N. experts abandoned an 18-day vigil outside the ministry. Pressed on the question of whether the inspectors might find anything of significance left there, Ekeus repeated that his team of "eminent experts" expects to find important leads to any weapons secrets that may have been removed during the week of crisis and negotiations.
"At this time, it's very important to ascertain and look for the traces," Ekeus told Cable News Network in an interview in Baghdad after the search team had entered the ministry. "I think we will be able to get at least some clues about what was in there."
But when asked whether the 11th-hour weekend compromise agreement that finally permitted Tuesday's search signaled a softening of the Iraqi position on an array of cease-fire controversies, Ekeus took a deliberately hard line. He called the ministry building standoff "a symbol of very serious obstruction from the Iraqi side--an outright breach of Iraq's obligations under the cease-fire and an unacceptable breach of the cease-fire."
A similar hard line was evident in the official Iraqi pronouncements that greeted Ekeus and his German-led inspection team in Baghdad on Tuesday morning, an indication that the threat of military confrontation last week has now become a war of words.
Reacting to Bush's virulent personal attack on the Iraqi leader Monday, when he called Hussein a "bully" and "a merchant of death," Abdel-Jabbar Mohsen, Hussein's press spokesman, called Bush a "tunnel-visioned charlatan."
Denouncing the United Nations, the West and specifically the United States for the fourth consecutive day in the ruling party newspaper, Al Thawra, Mohsen added that Bush "is rancorous, savage, barbaric and cursed."
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/02/this-day-in-history-japanese-forces-began-their-evacuation-of-guadalcanal/
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This Day In History: Japanese Forces Began Their Evacuation Of Guadalcanal
BY PETER REID FEBRUARY 1, 2017
This day in history, February 1, 1943, Japanese forces on Guadalcanal Island, defeated by Marines, started to withdraw
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Bonanza
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Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running western, and ranks overall as the second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's Gunsmoke), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set around the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe.
Premise
The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright
The family lived on a 600,000+ acre (937+ square-mile) ranch called the Ponderosa on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The vast size of the Cartwrights' land was quietly revised to "half a million acres" on Lorne Greene's 1964 song, "Saga of the Ponderosa." The ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee
Bonanza was considered an atypical western for its time, as the core of the storylines dealt less about the range but more with Ben and his three dissimilar sons, how they cared for one another, their neighbors, and just causes. "You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family and the troubles it went through. Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television. Most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didn't like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters"
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