Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will Call the Shots." Though the cease-fire had been in effect for more than ten days, Cairo chose to remain a city under siege. Windows stayed blacked out, sandbags and anti-bomb walls were still being built in front of public buildings, people were still being stopped for security checks. Huge ack-ack guns clanked their way through the city streets. The Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party, began recruiting a popular militia. To keep returning Egyptian troops from spilling the real battle story, Nasser quarantined them outside Cairo; and many families that lost sons...
...worse, the Israelis were not the only people who seemed to be studiously ignoring De Gaulle's advice. The Soviets scorned his appeal for a four-power conference on the Middle East. The U.S. spurned his counsels on Viet Nam. And then Red China unexpectedly exploded an H-bomb, ample proof that it had moved itself far in front of France in the nuclear sweepstakes...
After days of sulking, le grand Charles took out his pique in public. From the Middle East crisis to China's H-bomb, the cause of all the world's troubles, he declared, is the war "unleashed in Viet Nam by American intervention." Peace in the Middle East is only possible once conflict has ended in Viet Nam, he said, and that end can only be achieved "by America's pledging to withdraw its forces within a specified time." As for Israel, "France accepts as final none of the changes effected on the terrain through military action...
...aboriginal dowry, an evolutionary intellectual advance. He is merely another mode of human society, coexisting and coequal with the most primitive tribes that have somehow survived, despite seemingly naive and archaic customs, into the space age. The marvelous fruits of contemporary Western culture-technology, medicine, literature, TV, the H-bomb-show an exercise of the mind no more commendable or admirable than the savage's totems and bone beads. Today's philosophies reflect no more brilliant a light than mankind's earliest brainstorms in the dim dawntime of thought...
Accordingly, when the Very Rev. Walter R. Matthews, 85, recently announced his retirement as dean of St. Paul's, Anglican insiders were betting that Prime Minister Harold Wilson would probably follow tradition, name either one of two outspoken ecclesiastical controversialists to the post: Ban-the-Bomb Canon Lewis John Collins of the cathedral, or Ardent Left-winger Edward Carpenter, Archdeacon of Westminster. Instead, Congregationalist Wilson surprised almost everyone by naming a dean who is relatively unknown outside church circles: the Ven. Martin Gloster Sullivan, 57, who as Archdeacon of London since 1963 has been responsible for the supervision...