Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tear-Gas Gun...
...apparent reason as they had to stop them in the first place, the Soviets let the convoys go. The westbound convoy went unhindered, to its destination in West Germany. But the eastbound convoy got only 90 miles along the pike toward West Berlin when it was halted by tommy gun-toting Russian soldiers headed by a high-ranking Soviet officer. Again came the Communist command: everybody out for a head count. And again the U.S. convoy commander refused...
...This knife and gun business is nonsense-strictly amateur-night material," said one. Added a cop: "Valachi must be talking off the top of his head. We know that some of these things can only be hearsay because by his own testimony he was only small potatoes in the mob. He just wouldn't have been privy to what was happening...
President Villeda Morales, a pediatrician turned reform politician, almost made it; the coup came only ten days before elections to choose a new President. It undid six years of hard work to change the banana republic's image of mud-hut misery, one-crop economics and machine gun politics...
...presided over in Romanoff and Juliet. This time the Fenwickians win the space race in a rocket supplied by the Soviet Union, financed by the United States, and fueled with the wine of Grand Fenwick. But the story isn't crucial; it's simply an excuse for a machine-gun-fast series of gags satirizing such juicy targets as international diplomacy, German scientists, student peace marchers, and American grammar...