Word: rb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over, it made evident that it was going to crack down on military talkers. The first victim was Chief of Naval Operations, Arleigh Burke. A routine anti-Communist Burke speech was heavily cut by Pentagon censors on grounds that it might roil negotiations for the release of two U.S. RB-47 flyers held prisoner in the Soviet Union. In the week that followed, lesser military leaders submitting speeches for clearance got them back heavily blue-penciled. Finally, last spring, the controversy blew wide open with the Walker case...
Optimistically, though, he pointed to the very sensitivity and alacrity with which each side emulated the other's moves. The Soviet return of an American RB-47 early this year, and Kennedy's ensuing reiteration that U-2 flights had been discontinued, evoked a marked change in the "editorial images" of both countries...
Born. To Captain Freeman Bruce Olmstead, 25, copilot of the RB-47 bomber shot down by Soviet fighters over the Barents Sea on July 1, who spent nearly seven months in a Soviet prison before returning home last January; and Gail Olmstead, 26: their second child, second daughter; in Topeka, Kans...
...plane that shot them down was a MIG-type fighter that opened fire from the rear without warning. The U.S. airmen "returned the fire with the RB-47's two remote-control, radar-directed...
...said the RB-47 was unarmed.) The RB-47 went out of control, with hits in two engines in the left wing, and the crew of six started bailing...