Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Dulles was in the thick of a struggle to defend the beleaguered Chinese Nationalist island of Quemoy-from an attack begun and carried on night and day by Communist guns, backed by Peking's threats to conquer Formosa, and charged with tension by Moscow's bomb-rattling promise to throw the U.S. out of Asia. Yet Dulles had reason to wonder whether he did not have more to fear from his friends than from his enemies...
...officials recognize that the Communists would in all likelihood retaliate by attempting to bomb Formosa itself, which the U.S. is committed to defend, and where U.S. fighters are already flying protective patrols. The first Red Chinese bomber shot down by U.S. planes would create new, and dangerously explosive, problems...
Last week the Weather Bureau successfully tried out an apparatus that makes the hurricane itself tell the position of its center. An Air Force B50 flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...
...attacks against supply planes and ships could bring renewed Nationalist demands for American approval to bomb newly activated Communist jet bases on the mainland...
...operating room, a surgeon announced that the blade, narrowly missing the critical aorta near the heart, had been removed and that the victim had a good chance for full recovery. But Harlem's leaders would be a long time forgetting that the hero who had escaped gun and bomb blasts in Alabama had narrowly missed being killed in the center of the North's largest Negro community...