Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the peace was broken. On four separate days, American warplanes swooped in to bomb the demilitarized zone-and the antiaircraft barrage that greeted them did not come from Communist carbines and pistols. The whole western section of the DMZ was alive with North Vietnamese troops, elements of Ho Chi Minn's ill-fated 324th Division, which had been driven out of South Viet Nam last month by the U.S. Marines' Operation Hastings. Intelligence reports indicated that the 324th was no stranger to the area; rather than risk running the gauntlet of air reconnaissance and allied strongpoints...
...site at Wavre, just outside Brussels. But the Belgian government, a reluctant host in any case, had other ideas. It suggested a less attractive spot at Chièvres, 35 miles southwest of the capital, a far safer site for Bruxellois in case anyone ever drops an atom bomb on NATO's military headquarters. Understandably, SHAPE recoiled in horror, since for almost two decades its 2,600 officers and men have been happily ensconced just 25 minutes from the Champs-Elys...
...Greenglass, addressing yourself to the Government's Exhibit 8, if you please, is that a cross section of the atomic bomb...
...result of Manhattan Project Machinist David Greenglass's secret testimony in 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for giving the Russians what the U.S. prosecutor described as a sketch of the 1945 Nagasaki "Fat Man" atomic bomb (see cut). For purportedly aiding the Rosenbergs, Morton Sobell got 30 years. But was the sketch substantially accurate...
...Manhattan Project scientists are prepared to back Sobell's claim that the sketch was false, inaccurate and incomplete. Whatever the outcome, the case has already supplied a crucial bit of historical fallout. Last week a Manhattan federal court released the long-impounded alleged sketch of the Nagasaki bomb-the first time it has ever been seen in public...