Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radiation detector station in Turkey, where giant radar scanners monitor nuclear-bomb activities inside the Soviet Union by rotating full circle every 90 seconds, a computer began to chatter every time the dish passed an azimuth heading of 270°. This area, almost completely opposite in direction from Russia, showed up on maps as the desolate valley of the River Jordan in Palestine. At length, when the scanner was again approaching this heading, the puzzled controllers pushed the computer's "speak" button. Reels whirled, relays clicked, and the message came pounding out: NO, NEGATIVE, THERE IS NO BOMB...
...Embassy Stenographer Barbara Robbins, 21, who had come to Saigon from Denver six months before, died at her desk, a ballpoint pen still clutched in her hand. Navy Storekeeper 2/C Manolito W. Castillo, 26, a clerk at the embassy, was killed in the doorway of the building when the bomb exploded. Three Saigon policemen were blown to bits. In all, 22 persons, most of them innocent Vietnamese pedestrians, were killed, and 190 were hurt. The motor-scooter driver had raced out of the blast area, was shot twice and arrested by pursuing police. He claimed he was a hired helper...
...fall of 1962 was flawless. Before the 1963 coup against South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, the CIA correctly predicted the coup, also warned against the internal strife that would follow. Last Sept. 17 McCone flatly predicted that the Red Chinese would explode their first nuclear bomb within 30 to 60 days. They...
...bomb line was moving slowly closer to North Viet Nam's capital of Hanoi. Sweeping in from their carriers in the South China Sea, U.S. Navy fighter-bombers struck twice at a vital bridge link on the coastal highway just 65 miles south of the capital. The bombs and rockets that smashed the span marked the first time U.S. air power had hit a purely strategic target in North Viet...
...pick a chute from the same batch that the recruits had used. He then bailed out over La Paz airport. The whole country cheered his courage, and before long he was making speeches calling for reform and denouncing Bolivia's politicians. Then the assassination attempts began. One bomb exploded in his auto (he was elsewhere), another went off under his bed (he was not home), a Molotov cocktail was hurled at his bedroom window (it fell short...