Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physicist Raymond Davis Jr. is designing one of the most extraordinary instruments known to modern science. When completed, it will be a swimming pool full of cleaning fluid, and will be installed in a deep mine...
Grudging Hands. A fine drizzle fell over the 14,000-ft.-high plateau as Lechin arrived at Siglo Veinte. With him were the Archbishop of La Paz, U.S. Consul Charles Thomas, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, and six other newsmen. A mine siren sounded, and 3,500 grimy miners gathered in front of the union hall. Many of them were in an ugly mood. "Down with the stooges of Yankee imperialism," they chanted. "To the wall! To the wall!" A note of urgent pleading in his voice, Lechin told them that President Paz Estenssoro had promised a fair trial...
...Bernard Rifkin, 52, labor adviser to the Agency for International Development; and Robert Fergerstrom, 26, a Peace Corps volunteer-were in the area to deliver a $15,000 check to finance two new schools. As they sat in the home of the Dutch manager of the Siglo Veinte mine, a twelve-ton Mercedes truck rumbled up, and out piled 60 miners. Waving Czech mausers and pistols, shouting "Gringo! Gringo!" they ourst into the house and hauled out the foreigners. By dawn, 17 hostages were prisoners in Siglo Veinte's union building. A radio message went out from the mines...
Fearing the effect of such a U.S. offer on the already aroused miners, the Bolivian government quickly denied that any U.S. arms aid was requested-or needed. President Paz ordered 3,000 troops to encircle the mine area, then made his own position clear: there would be no exchange of prisoners, and the miners must release their captives. But neither Paz nor the miners would give in. To send the army in to rescue the hostages, Paz feared, might bring on their deaths and plunge the nation into bloody civil...
Desperate Appeals. As the tension increased, a handful of newsmen, among them TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, was permitted to visit the dingy mine standing on a barren mountain. He found the men held in two rooms decorated with bright pictures of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. They were treated well enough, they said, but their dynamite-laden female wardens were getting extremely nervous. Both the mother and wife of arrested Union Leader Pimentel were among the guards. Reported Scott: "The women are surly, well armed, impulsive and dangerous. Even if the men wanted to relent and give up the hostages...