Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a radio speech afterward, Nkrumah vowed that the "evil men and neocolonialist agents amongst us shall be smoked out." Two days later a mob shouting "Ghana yes, Yankee no!" descended on the American embassy in Accra, hauled down the Stars and Stripes. A plucky Negro attache, Emerson Player, 31...
At worst, the cutoff will cause the Navy moderate inconvenience. Long ago prepared for such a move, the base has a reserve of over 15 million gallons on hand; there is also a special tanker that can convert 100,000 gallons of salt water a day into fresh water. By...
Photographer Merritt was released with the order to "walk the hell out of here"; last man to shove him along was Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo. When Governor George Wallace heard what had happened he told Lingo that "this sort of thing must not be allowed to happen," and...
"Premier Castro...allowed the fishing boats to proceed into our waters and thus created an incident that would give him an excuse to focus world attention on Guantanamo by cutting off its water supply. His denials are refuted by monitored radio messages between the boats and Havana and President Dortico...
Even so, adds a bitter Air Force man, "the Russians knew they had a pigeon" when they went after the relatively slow intruder. The Soviet protestations to the contrary, the incident, in Senator Richard Russell's words, amounted to nothing less than "premeditated, unnecessary and cold-blooded murder."