Word: disruptionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARTILLERY BATTLE : Communist China's gunners laid down on Quemoy one of the most intense and longest-sustained artillery bombardments ever directed against a single objective. High point: the Communists fired 60,000 rounds from 300 guns on Sept. 11. The bombardment caused serious disruption on the supply beaches...
"The degradation of the state is rapidly becoming worse." said Charles de Gaulle. "At this moment, when France is offered so many opportunities in so many ways, she is faced with disruption and perhaps with civil war. In these conditions I am offered one more opportunity to lead the country...
The police in Djakarta rounded up Sumatrans thought to be sympathetic to the rebels, threatened prosecution of anyone caught listening to rebel broadcasts. Dr. Bahder-Djohan, president of the University of Indonesia and a Sumatran, asked to be relieved of active duty in protest at the bombing of his homeland...
"Complete heart block," a disruption of the electrical impulses flowing over the heart, is a danger for 10% to 25% of patients, although the operation itself may have been successful. Pacemakers working through electrodes attached outside the body require too strong a current for continuous use. Better, said Dr. Lillehei...
In the four weeks since Saud and Nasser last met, there has been a perceptible shifting of opinion in the Arab world. Most of it is away from Nasser. The sophisticated among Arab politicians now see that, despite his victory claims, Nasser took a humiliating beating in Sinai. Furthermore, Arab...