Word: ions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill cops, rob banks, blow up pipelines and make sporadic attacks on backland towns. The guerrillas now have about 600 men under arms. So far they have failed to win much support from Venezuela's peasants, who form the backbone of President Leoni's reform-minded Ace ion Democrdtica party. Yet some 5,000 government troops have rarely been able to kill or capture more than one or two of the elusive guerrillas at a time, and their continuing presence unsettles the entire country...
...thoroughbreds, this year's show was as well attended as ever, but by a somewhat different breed. Except for a few perennials, Society Columnist Joseph Dever noted that "society was conspicuously missing. On the normally chic north side, we counted less than two dozen white ties, and fash ion photogs were left with surplus film on their hands ... It looks like the National is being taken over by the real horse lovers...
...still going on." As for Viet Nam, said the general, "the Americans, who've got their dirty affair going in Viet Nam with their tanks and their trucks and their air planes, have got to realize they're not alone in the world with the Soviet Un ion. When they realize that, it will be better, because we have nothing against them...
When space talk turns to far-out exploration, to manned voyages far beyond the moon or Mars, most plans call for a nuclear reactor capable of providing abundant power without paying too much of a penalty for weight, and an ion engine capable of turning that power into thrust for months or years without paying too high a price in fuel consumption. Last week the first of such combinations, featuring SNAP-10A,* the world's first spaceworthy reactor, went into operation as it orbited the earth...
...enough to make overtures to the West. Without waiting for the Soviets, he expanded Galati by signing a $42 million contract for a steel plant with a British-French combine. The Sino-Soviet split gave Dej another chance to twist the bear's tail. Rumania's Premier Ion Maurer winged off to Peking last year and agreed to boost trade with the Chinese Communists by 10% . He stopped off in the Soviet Union on the way back and kindly volunteered to "mediate" Sino-Soviet differences, while back in Bucharest, Russian bookstores were being closed, and Russian was dropped...