Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France will set off its first atom bomb next year, the Paris business magazine Entreprise reported last week. Crowed Entre prise: "This will permit us to enter the 'atomic club' before membership is closed. Great Britain must resign itself to no longer being the sole nuclear partner of the U.S." From France's Defense Ministry came proud confirmation that work on the French bomb "is quite far along and we may expect tests in the near future...
...French atomic-bomb program will cost close to $1 billion (400 billion francs) in the next seven years. In NATO eyes, France could make many more useful contributions to Western defense than by designing and manufacturing a weapon already made by the U.S. and Britain. It is exactly the kind of wasteful enterprise that the projected summit meeting was designed to eliminate or make unnecessary...
...Moroccans managed to hang on to some of Ifni's border outposts. Spanish paratroops dropped from the skies to retake one, a heavy cruiser lobbed shells into others. Madrid ordered World War II Heinkels and Messerschmitts south from the mainland to bomb and strafe along the ill-defined frontier. Istiqlal partisans charged that the Spanish were striking roads and villages on the Moroccan side. In Rabat young (28) Crown Prince Moulay Hassan ordered Moroccan troops to shoot back at any plane attacking Moroccan territory, and indicated that Morocco would demand "our door to the Sahara"-that part...
Nervy Foe. The well-heeled rebel leaders who are financing the bomb throwing like to draw a distinction between themselves and Cuba's political gangsters of the past 25 years. In Batista they have taken on the shrewdest and nerviest veteran of the gun-slinging school. A dirt-poor lad from Oriente province, he painfully acquired the rudiments of an education, carefully plotted and led the "sergeant's revolt" that won out in 1933. He voluntarily relinquished power, a rich man, eleven years later...
...brutal counter-terrorism campaign that drove thousands of Cubans from neutrality to opposition. Irresponsible police thugs in Havana blunderingly murdered Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, a respected, nonviolent leader of the anti-Batista Orthodox Party ("About like killing Lyndon Johnson," say the rebels). A 15-year-old boy, suspected of bomb tossing, was castrated in Santiago and shipped home dead to his mother. When Rebel Frank Pais, a young schoolteacher, was shot by cops in Santiago, 80,000 Cubans marched to his funeral and closed down the town for seven days with a general strike...