Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their vows of revenge, the Malcolm X followers were as good as their word. In Harlem, less than 36 hours after the murder, a fire bomb tossed from an adjacent rooftop through an upper window of the Black Muslims' Mosque No. 7 sent flames shooting 30 feet into the night sky, gutted the building. Six firemen were hurt when a wall caved in, and 320 cops rushed to Harlem from three boroughs under a "rapid mobilization" order after the alarm was sounded. In San Francisco, another mosque was set ablaze, but firemen quickly doused...
Human Shield. Chicago police ringed Elijah Muhammad's 19-room, $50,000 red brick mansion on the South Side, reconnoitered nearby Muslim buildings. When a delivery truck pulled up to Elijah's house with what the driver said was a grandfather clock, the police bomb squad rushed to the scene. They found that it was indeed a grandfather clock, a gift from Muslim women in Philadelphia...
Everything of consequence in South Viet Nam was up in the air. Out of Danang Airbase roared flight after flight of bomb-laden U.S. jets to strike at the increasingly aggressive Communist Viet Cong in the country's besieged northern reaches. Out of Saigon's airport far to the south soared Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, bound for exile with his family, carrying two plastic bags full of Vietnamese earth, the Grand Cross of the National Order, and the ruins of a year in power...
...enough just yet, but it was a considerable improvement. In eight strikes last week, U.S. F-100 Super Sabres, B57 Canberras and prop-driven Skyraiders plastered Viet Cong concentrations, leaving scores of guerrillas dead in their wakes. The planes dropped tons of newly developed anti-personnel bombs, including an aerial version of the artilleryman's cannister: a big bomb casing that opens after release to pour out a string of smaller bombs on a 100-ft. line...
...such problems can be relegated to the past. Last week at the Army's Camp Bullis, near San Antonio, medics demonstrated a portable, air-conditioned hospital-aseptic operating room and all. Under a miniature mushroom cloud that signified a theoretical A-bomb attack, while scores of "casualties" splashed with blood-red paint waited for treatment, the 20-bed unit was made ready within half an hour...