Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revanchist" state, which 25 years ago last week had invaded Russia, that has not yet accepted the postwar Oder-Neisse frontier and, moreover, now demands nuclear weapons. French aides noted signs of Gaullist irritation: the general's nods came with such regularity that he resembled a ticking time bomb and his hands clenched tight on the carved Romanov griffins of his chair. De Gaulle's response would have pleased his NATO allies if he had uttered it in their presence. "It is necessary," he said when Brezhnev finally finished, "to proceed by stages. The future lasts a long...
...costume settled down for a cultural evening that began with a villanelle of squeals and grunts. The caterwauling doggerel went on, with the audience chanting a "Sound Mass"-"MUTAMA! MUTAMA! M'MUTA!"-and Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 29, whose benefit appearances in the past have included ban-the-bomb marches, standing up in Castro-style fatigues to sing Fidel's freedom song, Guantanamera. Before the moon was down, leonine Poet Robert Graves, 70, advised the kids on using drugs: "A real person needs nothing like that." Unnecessary advice, since most of the poetasters were already high on beer...
...their leader with a party motion condemning Wilson's decision to maintain Britain's east-of-Suez defense commitments. The issue was carefully chosen, since it enlisted the support of both left and right. The left wing wanted Britain out of Asia on ban-the-bomb grounds; the right wing wanted much the same in order to save money better spent at home...
...While the men of the 101st Airborne and 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) stood back, poised to pounce, 900 tear gas grenades blossomed on the ridge to flush the Reds out of their tunnels and bunkers. As the enemy came up for air, the overcast and seemingly empty sky began raining bombs. For 47 minutes they fell in lethal, patterned precision, laying open the ridge in a giant surgical slash. The bombs came from 24 high-flying B-52s guided in from Guam by "sky spot" radar controllers on the ground. Within five minutes after the last bomb had burst, G.I.s were...
...probably leads to a rosier picture of the war than is justified by facts. While Hanoi, thanks to the careful targeting of the U.S. bombers, as a population center is probably safer than any place in South Viet Nam today, its atmosphere is hardly conducive to clearheaded armchair generalship. Bomb shelters are everywhere: at 8-ft. intervals between sidewalks and curbs sit concrete, barrel-sized holes for individuals to jump into, pulling manhole covers atop them. Slit trenches deface Hanoi's lovely leafy parks, where the flame trees last week were still in bloom, trunks neatly whitewashed...