Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hive Bound. In Columbia, S.C.. Representative Lloyd Bell introduced a bill in the state legislature that would protect citizens from "Yankee bees," said they escape occasionally from out-of-state trucks and attack his constituents in swarms...
...Fidel Castro himself is neither a Communist nor a communist sympathizer. Moreover, he sees no real danger of Communism coming into power as results of the recent re-birth of the strength of the labor unions. Although many of his soldiers have confided to me their willingness to attack the Dominican Republic in a two-pronged blow at Batista and Trujillo, Castro himself professes no knowledge of any such plans. His manner, moreover, suggested that Batista's threat to return to Cuba at the head of 10,000 troops need not even be taken seriously...
Those who mitigate the danger of the missile gap argue that the aggressor would need more missiles than his opponent. For an aggressor presumably would initiate a mass attack only if he calculated that he could avoid being devastated in retaliation. To do this he would need to wipe out his opponents' missile arsenals, besides his cities, and this would necessitate expending a large number of rockets to allow for underground installation and inaccurate firings. The United States, it is thus argued, would not need as many missiles as the Soviet Union, for we require only enough to discourage their...
...meet his opponents' raise, especially if each side knows the other's hand. If the Soviets can marshal a substantial missile margin they can force peripheral issues and fragment our alliances by bullying smaller nations into neutrality. In short, our missile supply may be sufficient to discourage Russian attack once the brink of war is reached; but when the Soviets possess missile superiority they may be able to force our allies to yield before the critical point is reached...
HELMSTEDT, Germany, Feb. 4--Under sharp attack by the United States, Soviet authorities yesterday turned loose a U.S. Army truck convoy they had held in East Germany for 53 hours...