Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along the canal, TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark found an almost dreamlike calm, the silence broken by only the cawing of a blackbird and the sound of popular music from a radio in an Israeli bunker. Visitors were greeted by a red-and-white sign in Hebrew: LEISURE AND HOLIDAY VILLAGE. Near by, Israeli troops could see the skyline of the deserted city of Suez shimmering in the haze, and sometimes caught a glimpse of Egyptian soldiers swimming, fishing or making occasional threatening gestures in their direction. For their part, the Israelis tended tomato patches, sunned themselves or played chess...
...Vice President's electoral campaign." Then Big Minh piped up. The popular general agreed that there was "some truth in what Ky says," and went on to blast the U.S. embassy for masterminding the rigging of the election despite its professed hands-off policy. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, he jeered, "is a great specialist in elections of this type. He succeeded in the Dominican Republic,* he succeeded in Viet Nam in 1967, and he will succeed again in October...
...Bunker says that no American equipment or resources, including planes and helicopters, can be used in the election, the American Government's so-called hands-off policy would, in reality, mean discrimination against me." THE THIEU REGIME. "Many people tell me they think that even under the French we had more freedom than we do now-and we are a people who do not like colonialism. I'm not advocating a return to colonialism, but under the French, people could live on their salaries...
...Where Bunker's skillful diplomacy during the crisis of 1965-66 cooled passions and opened the way for the election of a moderate President, Joaquin Balaguer...
...outposts turned over to Saigon last week was Charlie 2, a barren hilltop four miles south of the DMZ. Last May, when it was still the home of 500 G.I.s, a single Communist rocket slammed into one overcrowded bunker at Charlie 2, killing 30 and wounding 32 inside...