Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NUCLEAR TESTING was put on the list by the U.S. and Britain over the strong protest of Russia and the Communist satellites, which demanded the question be debated along with the fuzzy, never-ending disarmament question. The U.S. feels that Russia, which exploded its 15th bomb in its latest test series last week, will not come out well in a full-scale debate on the subject of a proposed test...
Abruptly, just as he was about to catch a train, Charles de Gaulle last week gave up his legal authority to be near dictator of France. A few hours before leaving for his first whistle-stop tour since a terrorist's bomb came within a damp fuse of killing him, De Gaulle issued a brief communiqué. As of Oct. 1, he announced, he would relinquish the extraordinary powers he had assumed* to quell the Algerian army revolt in April...
...Raoul Salan seemed to be sneering louder every day at De Gaulle's attempts to reach agreement with the F.L.N. From his hiding place near Algiers, Salan wrote a letter, which was published in Le Monde, denying that either he or the S.A.O. had been connected with the bomb attempt on De Gaulle's life. Two days later, Salan's men bombed the national television station's transmitter near Algiers just before a scheduled program on De Gaulle's tour. As TV screens went blank, the voice of Salan came on (it was obviously broadcast...
...Phuoc Thanh woke to the bludgeoning explosion of a plastic bomb that ripped away a corner of the concrete administration building. As the provincial chief and two of his aides rushed to the street, they were shot down. Over the rampart swarmed 600 Viet Cong Communist guerrillas brandishing rifles and machetes. Most of the town's 50 Civil Guards were machine-gunned as they slept. A company of 70 U.S.-trained Vietnamese Rangers retreated to the jungle, leaving the town to its fate. Their commander explained later that he intended to ambush the guerrillas as they withdrew...
Flying into Rio de Janeiro on a lecture tour, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 57, irritably denied that he felt any guilt for serving as top scientist on the first A-bomb project. "I carry no weight on my conscience," insisted the white-haired director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, whose security clearance for participation in U.S. nuclear development was withdrawn in 1954. "Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has now changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of government, not of scientists." But in the Oppenheimer scheme...