Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Near Bien Hoa, a Viet Cong deserter was captured by a company of the 1st Infantry Division-the "Big Red One"-and led it straight to his buddies' bunker. Some bunker. The first U.S. charge was turned back by anti-personnel mines set off electrically. A second, then a third U.S. attack was driven back by withering rifle and machine-gun fire. Finally, the G.I.s called for a flamethrower. It was brought up by helicopter, and Private Wayne Beck of Rolla, Mo., strapped it on his back for a fourth assault. Beck got within 60 ft. of the bunker...
...Bolivia's most valuable resource, yet the mines might just as well be in another country for all the prosperity they bring. Since nationalization in 1952, Communist union leaders, backed by a well-armed "workers' militia," have ruled the mines, and no government has dared call a halt to the appalling featherbedding, inefficiency and spiraling wages, which result in losses of more than $6,000,000 annually. No government, that is, except the present military junta headed by Co-Presidents René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando Candia. Last May the two generals drew up a harsh but workable...
...exposure it merits. However, one implied criticism of Spater's motives or intellectual honesty deserves explanation. Spater was himself concerned that his connection with the airline industry be disclosed. At his suggestion, the introductory article of the issue described his position. Any blame for inadequacy of disclosure is mine...
...incumbent is of the same generation. Examples: International Machinists' President Al Hayes, 65, was succeeded by Vice President Roy Siemiller, 60; the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' Gordon Freeman, 68, is likely to be followed by Joe Keenan, also 68; waiting in line behind the United Mine Workers' Tony Boyle, 60, is old John L.'s youngest brother, Ray Lewis...
...depths of a South African gold mine, scientists have snared some strange cosmic ghosts that could be the basic stuff of the universe. They are the first natural neutrinos ever detected...