Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week President Johnson decreed an end to the exile of the Bikinians, now a scattered community of 500. After 23 atomic and hydrogen bomb tests, the last in 1958, the poisons of nuclear radiation have dissipated from the sand and sea around their native atoll, and the Bikinians can at last return to their home...
...same day as his now luxuriant beard, which he let grow during the 1966 fall massacres "as a sign of mourning." He sleeps from dawn to midmorning, lives and works in his tightly guarded Umuahia villa. He evacuated his wife Njide-ka and two small children after a bomb was dropped near his home. Slouched at his desk, pacing the grounds impatiently in darkness, chain-smoking State Express filter cigarettes, he is a lonely figure in his besieged land. Ojukwu often is pictured in Nigerian propaganda as a power-mad Hitler. In fact, he runs Biafra as a wartime democracy...
...heads of three big defense suppliers-Bethlehem's Martin, C. William Verity of Armco and Thomas Patton of Republic -were summoned to Washington for talks with Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. Before long, their companies were issuing statements that across-the-board did not actually include shell steel, bomb casings, barbed wire and other military items. Defense, for its part, quickly claimed victory...
...that, of course, was before the Bomb. Since World War II ended, not a single war has been formally declared. Yet it has been a period of almost continuous violence. Besides Korea and Viet Nam, there have been at least 50 other conflicts of major proportions. In this big handsome book, Author-Photographer Carl Mydans and his wife Shelley, both of whom have distinguished themselves as TIME-LIFE combat correspondents, examine a China torn by civil war, the bloody and futile efforts of the French to hang on to a lost empire in Indo-China, the insurrection in Greece...
...Moslem girl carrying her baby brother; TIME Correspondent James Bell's terse account of weary American troops fighting for No Name Ridge in Korea; Photographer Andrew St. George's file on a Castro patrol's foolhardy attempt to blow up an armored car with a crude bomb...