Word: peleliu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their glittering lagoons and rain-forested redoubts, the Japanese positioned their power to control all the Pacific in World War II-and the U.S. fight to thwart them made a litany and legacy forever of such unlikely flecks on the map as Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom up from Kwajalein in test interceptions...
...Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, 73, one of the most liberal of Democrats and a onetime economics professor at the University of Chicago, set out last week to try to teach a former student a postgraduate lesson, this time in political science. The tall, shambling Marine Corps veteran of Peleliu and Okinawa announced that he would run for a fourth term "if the Democratic Party wants me." There was little doubt that it would. His only announced Republican rival is Charles Percy, 46, the Bell & Howell board chairman who failed in a try for the governorship in 1964. Douglas...
...Medal of Honor winner was conspicuously absent from the White House ceremony: he was former Marine Captain Arthur J. Jackson, 38, who in September 1944 charged into withering enemy fire on Peleliu, destroyed twelve pillboxes and killed 50 Japanese soldiers. Now Jackson has been forced out of the Marine Corps, accused of killing a Cuban at Guantanamo...