Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. In a readable full-length biography, a German historian tells the story of the aristocratic colonel whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by freakish chance...
STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. An engrossing biography of the mystical and aristocratic Wehrmacht colonel whose daring attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb brought him speedy execution by a Nazi firing squad...
...ranged up and down the vital railroad links between Hanoi and China last week, dispatching box cars, bridges and marshaling yards with lethal efficiency. Other sorties hit army barracks, antiaircraft emplacements, SAM sites and the Hoa Lac airfield -where the North Vietnamese had rigged up mock MIGs and painted bomb craters on the runways to fool the American flyers. The phony holes were quickly turned into smoking facts...
...price Hanoi must pay to get the goods through "is hurting North Viet Nam's warmaking capability." Some 500,000 people, said McNamara, have had to be di verted from other tasks to repair bomb damage. Since the President has authorized attacks on 85% of the 359 targets chosen by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, few really damaging targets remain. True, four airfields are as yet unhit, but only an estimated 20 MIGs are now operating from North Vietnamese fields. The clear implication is that the rest of Hanoi's air force now nests in China and attacks...
...countries which wants big power guarantees against nuclear blackmail in exchange for renouncing nukes is India, which worries openly about China's bomb. West Germany and Italy have strong reservations about the proposed inspection of nuclear-power reactors to assure that fuels are not diverted to weaponry. They want EURATOM, not the International Atomic Energy Agency,* to be their watchdog. They are worried that Communist nations in l.A.E.A. might take the opportunity to steal advanced industrial secrets. West Germany also vehemently opposes the absence of a time limit in the treaty. The Germans argue that it should be tried...