Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frontier with West Germany was inadequately defended. But the Czechoslovaks agreed to transfer Lieut. General Václav Prchlik from his party post as chief of security for the army back to strictly military duties. The Russians had accused Prchlik, who recently demanded revisions in the Warsaw Pact command, of leaking the pact's military secrets. He did not lose his army rank, and his job was due to be abolished anyway under coming reforms. Nevertheless, his removal was a victory not only for the Russians but also for the conservatives in Prague whom Moscow would like...
...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 Nam duty. They normally carry up to 84 conventional "iron" bombs of 500 lbs. each tucked inside their bomb bays and another 24 of 750 lbs. each slung...
Died. Major General Robert F. Worley, 48, deputy commander of the American Seventh Air Force and the third American general to die in Viet Nam; when his RF-4C Phantom jet was hit by enemy ground fire while on a reconnaissance mission; near Hué. A longtime fighter pilot with World War II combat experience in the Italian and Pacific theaters, Worley was one of the Air Force's youngest and most promising leaders. He had been in operational command of Air Force ground-support and tactical bombing in the two Viet Nams, and was scheduled to leave...
Everyone keeps track of the statistics, grim or absurd. Since the Military Armistice Commission began meeting, North Korea has charged the U.N. command with no fewer than 56,889 truce violations, most of them such minor procedural matters as the presence of improper arm bands on U.N. guards. The U.N. has admitted 93 violations and charged North Korea with 6,313. Pyongyang has admitted only two, the last one in 1953. It is so adamant about not taking blame for the increased tensions along the DMZ that it refuses to accept the bodies of slain North Korean soldiers, insisting that...
...Cream Parlor. At Panmunjom itself, a petty little game of one-upmanship still goes on. Long ago, the North Koreans built a circular guard-post on a hill (dubbed "the ice-cream parlor" by the U.N. side) so as to have the highest building at Panmunjom. When the U.N. command took away the altitude superiority by erecting a two-story building, North Korea put a star atop the ice-cream parlor to re-establish its height advantage by a couple of inches. U.N. guards at Panmunjom are mostly U.S. military police, chosen for their size and brawn to tower over...