Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desks of key officials lay a blue volume of contingency papers labeled "War Book." Auto headlights were dimmed with smears of mud and cow dung, and trucks were camouflaged with leafy branches. For three successive nights, Indian bombers struck at Karachi's harbor installations, and the wail of air-raid sirens blended with the sobbing call to prayer of muezzins atop minarets. A bitter Pakistani official said, "Let's fight it out and get it over with. Either we become slaves of India, or India accepts us as an independent state. This suspense must...
20th anniversary of the first nuclear raid...
That first B-26 flight attacked on schedule, with indifferent results. Still according to the plan, a second B-26 bombing strike against Castro's airfields had been laid on for D-morning itself. But the "defector" cover for the first raid, as Sorensen puts it, "was quickly torn apart-which the President realized he should have known was inevitable in an open society." It was at about that point that the realization finally dawned on Kennedy: he had approved a plan on the supposition that it would be "both clandestine and successful" but which was, in fact...
With the U.S. caught in the act of sponsoring the first B-26 raid, reports Schlesinger, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, backed by McGeorge Bundy, convinced the President that the D-day morning raid "would put the U.S. in an untenable position." Everyone, says Sorensen, would have regarded it as "an overt, unprovoked attack by the U.S. on a tiny neighbor." Kennedy canceled the second strike; he changed his mind later, but after the strike was reinstated, it was rendered useless by bad weather. Sorensen carefully points out that Kennedy did not-as is often maintained-"cancel U.S. air cover...
Ever since U.S. B-29 bombers leveled Emperor Hirohito's palatial quarters within Tokyo's moat-encircled imperial compound in May 1945, the imperial family has made do with modest quarters, first the palace air-raid shelter and, since 1961, a 15-room house in the palace compound. Five years ago it was decided that proper settings for the Emperor's ceremonial occasions could no longer be delayed. The architect picked for the honor of designing the Emperor's $25.5 million palace: Junzo Yoshimura, now 56, a professor in Tokyo's University of Fine Arts...