Word: gev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increased. Near the Golan, Israeli soldiers flushed eight guerrillas and killed six of them in a running gun battle. The survivors said they belonged to the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was responsible for the Ma'alot raid. They were bound for Kibbutz Ein Gev and Kibbutz Haon by the Sea of Galilee to carry out similar raids in order to free fedayeen prisoners in Israel. In Jerusalem, three Arabs were arrested and accused of setting Katyusha (after the Russian affectionate form of "Katya") rockets, discovered the week before, that were aimed and primed...
...assembled scientists and technicians had every reason for jubilation. After many plaguing problems, the world's largest atom smasher had reached its programmed energy level of 200 billion electron volts (GeV).* That was not only the most powerful beam ever achieved by an accelerator, but also far surpassed the former record achieved by the Russians in their 76 GeV machine outside Moscow. Just back from congressional appropriations hearings in Washington, NAL'S beleaguered director, Physicist Robert R. Wilson, happily passed out champagne in goblets saved for the occasion and emblazoned with "200 GeV...
Despite those misfortunes, Wilson managed to generate a 200 GeV beam before July 1972, the originally scheduled target date. He also stayed within budget even with the expensive magnet repairs (estimated cost: $1,000,000). Was the monumental effort really worth it? Addressing himself to that question at the congressional hearing, Wilson had no doubts. "We can say," he testified, "that we are about to complete a new scientific instrument that will allow us to see much deeper into the atom, that we know there is much yet to be seen and that the new knowledge will help us better...