Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret Weapon. Marines are fighting ferociously guarding the DMZ in 1967, but the invasion continues unabated. And so, in an effort to stanch this wound, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara last week confirmed long-rumored plans for a 47-mile barrier across Viet Nam just below the DMZ. It will stretch from the South China Sea to Laos, running only 25 miles south of the two great walls of Dong Hoi and Truong Duc, erected in the 1630s by the Nguyen dynasty to fend off the warring Trinh emperors of the North...
...movement of the smallest enemy groups and transmit warnings to gun crews miles away. "We are getting better and better at this sort of thing," says Charles M. Herzfeld, until recently director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. "I think that it is really our secret weapon." Still, there are plenty of bugs in the system: rats, dogs, or even rainfall can trigger the gadgets-and it rains an average of 120 inches during the monsoon. Other zones will be swept by radar. Hair-thin trip wires, mine fields and conventional barbed-wire entanglements will block...
...Bent, a 285-ft.-long floating oceanographic laboratory, transmitted a suspect blip. But more than a score of wrecks litter the ocean floor off the Rat Islands; until a special camera synchronized to a high-powered strobe light can be lowered over the spot, the sea is guarding its secret...
...N.L.F.'s only visible leaders are its secretary general, Qahtan al Shaabi, 47, an engineer who once served as director of agriculture in one of the federation's tiny sultanates, and his hard-eyed young nephew, Feisal. What outside support they have, if any, remains their secret. FLOSY, on the other hand, boasts a stable of well-known politicians and administrators, led by Abdul Qawee Mackawee, 48, onetime Chief Minister of Aden, and Abdullah Asnag, 32, former boss of Aden's powerful trades unions. For the past five months, FLOSY has operated a government in exile, complete...
...swimmers have tried the crossing and been defeated by the strong currents and numbing cold. Last week Stewart Evans, 41, an Army lieutenant colonel who had spent five months training for the assault, marched down to a beach on the Farallons, smeared himself with great gobs of a "secret" cold-protective grease and stroked off-straight into a school of jellyfish. For two hours, his left arm was nearly useless with excruciating pain, but he somehow kept going until the pain subsided, after a total...