Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambodia, where the U.S. does not bomb, except for tactical strikes against gun positions that fire into South Viet Nam, the patrols carry out scouting and occasional sabotage against Communist bases. There is no military coordination as such between the allies and the 35,000-man Cambodian army. But along parts of the border, the two sides have reached "local accommodations"-including at least one instance of Cambodian artillery support for a beleaguered South Vietnamese outpost. Some intelligence information has also been exchanged. Indeed, Cambodian troops have been involved in small skirmishes with Communist forces. For all that, Sihanouk...
...XIII, exiled with her husband in 1931 when the country was proclaimed a republic; after a long illness; in Ouchy, Switzerland. One of 40 grandchildren of Britain's Queen Victoria, the gentle Queen Ena suffered stoically through a life studded with sadness. In 1906, an anarchist's bomb thrown at her bridal coach killed a score of bystanders. One of her sons was deaf, two were hemophiliacs (they later died in automobile accidents). King Alfonso was a known philanderer and, after going into exile, she and her husband lived apart. Only once did Queen Ena return to Spain...
...that future is our ruefully remembered past. Today we are threatened by fear of the Bomb; then it was the spread of Fascism that gave the young a sense of doom and justified revolt against the Oldies...
...leaped like firebrands from campus to campus?Berkeley, Brandeis, Chicago, Columbia and Howard, to name a few. At Duke and Wisconsin, the turmoil required the National Guard. Black militants and striking teachers closed San Francisco State College for five months, a shutdown punctuated by police raids, arson attempts and bomb explosions...
Outside on the steps of Lowell, MacDonnell told the crowd that had gathered, "The indicates what we've been talking about--the tensions on campus. But we are not going to be scared off by a bomb." Scott W. Jacobs