Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting force with force, Duvalier rushed 200 troops into the north, blocked the main road to Cap Haitien, surrounded the airport and personally directed every operation and news release from his corner office in the palace. "We must bomb the enemy systematically," he instructed his commander by phone. Later, Duvalier rang up Washington, where the Haitian ambassador, Arthur Bonhomme, was holding a press conference, and instructed the diplomat to inform the assembled reporters that Papa's troops were "mopping up right...
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported that a telephoned bomb threat rousted Kennedy staff members from their Omaha headquarters. Police searched the headquarters but found no bomb...
Triggering the A-Bomb...
...January, George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, resigned from a Pentagon project staff working on the planned anti-personnel barrier between North and South Vietnam. Kistiakowsky, designer of the explo- sive trigger of the atom bomb, would not speak of his resignation in any but a philosophical fashion...
AFTER COLUMBIA, American universities will never be quite the same again. That is a statement like "the atom bomb changed the nature of American diplomacy," not a prediction or a hope. The ground rules for playing University Power Struggle have changed...