Word: elevatored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four-minute Raid. For once, the Ar abs could readily blame Israel for the newest escalation. The day before the Syrian raid, Israeli jets attacked inside Syria's border for the first time since the 1967 war; the planes rocketed and strafed a guerrilla camp, wounding elev en soldiers. After Syria's riposte, Israel, if past patterns held true, could be expected to reply. That, in turn, would set off another cycle of violence...
Apart from the payola controversy, the big news of the week was the almost monotonous parade of Americans to the victory pedestal. There were elev en boxing weight classes in Mexico City, and U.S. boxers won medals in seven of them. In yachting. New Orleans' Buddy Friedrichs and San Diego's Lowell North won gold medals. In shooting, Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a 29-year-old Army lieutenant, scored 1,157 out of a possible 1,200 points to win the free-rifle competition and break his own world record. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Connecticut...
Last week Odinga got his comeup pance. In a series of finely tuned politi cal maneuvers, Kenyatta expelled elev en of his Iron Curtain friends, stage-managed a reorganization of the KANU party that abolished Odinga's job as deputy president and elected eight regional vice presidents in his place -all of them anti-Odinga. A small group of Odinga fanatics resigned to form their own opposition party, but it was a ges ture so hopeless that Odinga himself refused to join them...
...their advanced skills, the sci entists of Cygnus made two important errors. In the first place, the signal they received contained no message at all. It came straight from Indonesia, where the volcano Krakatoa had erupted elev en years before, generating meaningless radio waves with its churning plasma...