Word: intrepidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three months after they skipped ship in Japan to show their opposition to the war, America's most celebrated Viet Nam deserters-four young sailors from the carrier Intrepid-finally found comfortable berths in a hospitable Sweden last week. Given asylum on "humanitarian" rather than political grounds by Sweden's Aliens Commission, the sailors-John Barilla, age 20, Richard D. Bailey, 19, Craig W. Anderson, 20, and Michael A. Linder, 19-marked their farewell to arms by lifting champagne glasses in toasts to peace, expanding on their views before ever-present bands of Swedish and foreign reporters...
...Year awards to the four patriotic Intrepid defectors for demonstrating the basic difference between democracy and Communism: putting one's conscience and morality above the dictates of the Johnson Administration...
Some of the "guinea pigs" sat passively. Others stumbled down the stairs and through the halls of Longfellow. One intrepid subject braved the traffic on Appian Way. Another made her way to Brigham's for lunch...
Moscow's lingering chagrin over Svetlana Alliluyeva's defection may have been mitigated somewhat last week by the spectacle of four earnest young Americans describing to Russian audiences their desertion from the aircraft carrier Intrepid as a protest against the Viet Nam war. "They're playing it big," sighed a U.S. official. Twice aired on Soviet television and displayed in Pravda, the self-proclaimed "patriotic deserters" were in Moscow in transit to a neutral country where they might "give all our strength to the struggle against the immoral, inhuman...
...both dawn and dusk, Intruder bombers from the U.S.S. Constellation dug huge craters in the runway of the previously untouched MIG airbase at Cat Bi, four miles southwest of Haiphong, and set fire to its fuel supply. Hitting at two more new targets, Skyhawks and Crusaders from the carriers Intrepid and Oriskany blasted the Lach Tray and Thuong Ly shipyards, which are located within about 1.7 miles from the center of Haiphong. Though Haiphong's piers have been avoided for fear of provoking a confrontation with the Soviet Union, a confrontation of sorts took place when U.S. Navy flyers...