Word: rb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RB-47 was flying a reconnaissance mission over the Sea of Japan, 50 miles off the North Korean coast, its electronic ears attuned to the radio and radar of the Communist half of the peninsula. Suddenly, two North Korean MIG-17 jet fighters flashed down. Though the U.S. plane was clearly over international waters and flying a course parallel to the Korean shore line, the Red jets opened fire with cannon and machine guns...
Last week a U.S. Air Force RB-66B reconnaissance bomber bellowed off the runway at Toul-Rosieres airbase...
...radarmen called fruitlessly for a course change, the big swept-wing Douglas jet crossed into Communist East Germany in the vicinity of the central Berlin air corridor. Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired on it. The American plane burst...
...Russians, of course, claimed they had potted a chicken, cried loudly that the plane had been reconnoitering military installations. The U.S., for its part, stuck to the story of a navigational error, demanded immediate release of both men and wreckage. Whatever the nature of the RB-66's mission, the Russians had all the ingredients for a fat, propaganda-loaded "show trial" like that of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. It remained to be seen if they would use them...
French Ra and Rb are a set of two half-year courses open to students who have had two years of French in high school but have not passed the language requirement in French. The stated aim of the courses is to increase reading speed and comprehension. In practice, however, it is considered a terminal course and is usually taken as an easy way to fulfill the language requirement. French C, an intermediate course in French conversation and composition, has the same requirements and is usually taken byy students who plan to continue their study of French...