Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, Pentagon officials had to go through all manner of contortions to explain why the MIGs had suddenly become a threat. For one thing, they said, the Communist jets have forced many U.S. pilots to jettison their bomb loads so as to lighten their planes for impending dogfights which, as often as not, failed to materialize. For another, when the MIGs are aloft, U.S. planes fly closer to the ground to avoid becoming targets -and that makes them more vulnerable to intense flak and small-arms fire. Moreover, as one Air Force general put it, if the MIGs were forced...
...could not, of course, arrange everything. As the carnival parade snaked by the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, a bomb inside an icecream cart exploded in the middle of the crowd. Another bomb went off a few hours later, while the Haitian capital was blacked out by one of its recurrent power failures. The toll: two dead, 40 injured. Duvalier's response was automatic. While the sirens of ambulances pierced the air and the government-controlled radio station called for all doctors to report to the city's general hospital, he ordered the mobilization of Haiti...
Died. Major General Thomas F. Farrell, 75, U.S. Army engineer and key figure in the development of the first atomic bomb, who in 1944 was recalled from crash building projects in India (the Ledo Road, the pipeline to China) to the even more urgent job of deputy to Manhattan Project Boss General Leslie Groves, sharing vital information that Groves previously held alone, assuring a backup in case of accident, later coordinated operations for the A-bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; of cancer; in Reno...
Under the flags stood Boston's most faithful counterdemonstrators, the Polish Freedom Fighters, brandishing a "Bomb Hanoi" placard. One of them, who gave his name as Cliff Arneson and said he had just gotten out of the service, mounted an overturned trash can and began haranguing people about the necessity to fight in Vietnam "to preserve our freedom and theirs...
...explosive issues torment the United States--particularly the Civil Rights issue internally and the Vietnam war externally. Internal justive and external peace are both inherently compelling issues for idealistic youth. Coming together they have abetted each other. Beyond these two issues lie others of great concern--control of the bomb, adjustment to the computer, accommodation to the mass corporation and government agency, and much else...