Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calm in the Tank. Deep inside the Pentagon, in the National Military Command Center?called "the tank"?first reports of the power failure flashed in from Strategic Air Command headquarters at Omaha and the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs. Both reported that eight major military bases in the Northeastern U.S. had suddenly ?and inexplicably?shifted to auxiliary power but that "the trouble was confined to a particular area and not due to bombs or such...
Communications with SAC and NORAD headquarters were checked and found intact. NORAD reported nothing alien or unfriendly in the skies over the U.S. "The Pentagon," said a senior officer, "remained calm, although pulses quickened...
Usual TV. For a country that had just performed an act of rebellion, Rhodesia was remarkably calm. One big Salisbury liquor store sold out of champagne two hours after the proclamation, but the customary nighttime silence of Salisbury's downtown streets was broken only by occasional drunken cries ("Rhodesia, Rhodesia") and a few blasts of car horns. Most white Rhodesians performed their usual tasks, went home to their usual dinners and sat down to watch their usual TV programs. In the teeming African townships of Highfield and Harare, police doubled their nightly patrols, but all was quiet. The African...
They were awakened at 7 p.m. by seven drunken men who had run shouting into the camp and burst into their tents. Paynter tried to calm them but was struck by machetes. The men turned on Mrs. Paynter and were joined by ten women wielding clubs. The beat the Paynters to unconsciousness...
...takeover downtown was as much intended to calm the loyalist military as it was to knock rebel heads. For weeks, the soldiers, led by Armed Forces Chief Rivera Caminero, have been muttering angrily that President Garcia-Godoy was too soft on the left, was loading his Cabinet with rebels, and failing to collect rebel arms. The rebels, in turn, have been loudly crying for Garcia-Godoy to fire Rivera Caminero and the rest of the service chiefs for their so-called "genocide" early in the civil war. At one point, Garcia-Godoy came out of a four-hour Cabinet meeting...