Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the giant, eight-engined jets first raided Viet Nam, B-52s have dropped an enormous 670,000 tons (equivalent to 25% of the total dropped by both the U.S.A.A.F. and the R.A.F. on Europe during World War II) in more than 26,000 sorties. Most of their bombs are aimed south of the DMZ, where few if any antiaircraft missiles exist to threaten the lumbering, relatively slow-moving attackers. Some 80 of the Strategic Air Command's older D and E models of the B-52, originally designed to haul nuclear weapons, have been converted for Viet...
...almost gone by the time we were over Viet Nam. The setting sun bathed the clouds in orange as the pilot, Major John Thigpen, 38, of Windsor, N.C., banked his B-52 into the bomb run. Below him, on the lower deck, the bombardier-navigator, Major Leonard Harris, 39, of Atlanta, hunched behind his radarscope, adjusting the scanner, like a television cameraman, until it gave him a moving, living map of partially cloud-obscured plantation country northwest of Saigon. Under that cover was the target, a suspected troop concentration. Everything had to go right the first time. The slightest navigational...
...distinguished member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a Stalin prizeholder who helped develop Russia's hydrogen bomb, Sakharov condemns the imprisonment in labor camps of Authors Yuli M. Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky and other intellectual dissidents. He demands the release of all political prisoners. As if that were not bad enough, he says that Russia must "without doubt" support the democratic reforms in Czechoslovakia. Though he censures U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, he also blames the outbreak of the Middle East war on Russia's "irresponsible encouragement" of the Arabs, charges that Russia's continued...
...Phoenix, which under an earlier pacifist owner had sailed pre-test voyages into American and Russian A-bomb testing zones in the Pacific, also sailed to North Vietnam in March...
Attempting to give his film some metaphorical importance, Director-Scenarist Marco Ferreri heavy-handedly presents the balloons as sexual, global and H-bomb symbols. To little avail. By the time Mario decides that his problem is insoluble and defenestrates himself in despair, the viewer will have long since discovered that he has been trapped inside a movie very like a balloon: filled with nothing but air and stretched to ultimate thinness...