Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nights of the Gun. From rock and bomb the rioters turned to guns. Snipers shot at police and firemen, wounding half a dozen. At the intersection of Lake and Wood Streets, 100 policemen armed with rifles traded shots with a dozen assailants in and around an apart ment project for an hour. Like guerrillas, most of the gunmen disappeared into the night after being surrounded...
...recovery mission is a formidable task force, often dedicated to finding and retrieving just one man. High overhead circles the "Crown," a C-130 command plane that coordinates the rescue. Then come four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival...
...elsewhere, from France's pasteurization to Austria's basic oxygen process for steel. The British invented the jet engine -but U.S. jets practically monopolize the world's long-range routes today. The U.S. opened its arms to European scientists, who gave it, among other things, The Bomb...
...felt himself "in the position of a jack rabbit in a hailstorm, hunkered up and taking it." He also had to listen to a lot of contradic tory advice from his lieutenants. The President once petulantly complained that "the Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb.' Then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much...
...apology by the British embassy couldn't cool Philippine tempers. And the boys did nothing to help their image when they finally returned to London. "I didn't even know they had a President," sniffed Lennon. "If we ever go back, it will be with an H-bomb...