Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mission church to preach in. When the missionaries turned her down, she went back to her village with the story that the missionaries had stolen her African book and sent it off to Scotland. She began attacking the New Testament, calling it icibolya-"a deserted village, a hollow shell...
...Right had been all set to shell him for freeing Tunisia and Morocco without winning Arab help in pacifying Algeria. But after Mendes-France pulled out in dissatisfaction over the lack of genuine reforms in Algeria, the big guns of the Right, which favor the tough elements of Mollet's Algerian policy, fell silent. The biggest thunder on the Left came from Stalin Peace Prizewinner Pierre Cot. "A war that France cannot wage and does not want," he cried. "The only thing to do is negotiate." But Mollet's attack made its own breaks. Just in time...
...France's bloody conflict in Algeria, war correspondents are running not only the occupational hazard of shot and shell but a new kind of risk. Though 350,000 French troops are committed, and the hostilities have claimed some 50,000 deaths on both sides, France does not recognize the conflict as a war. Result: a legalistic no man's land in which reporters trying conscientiously to get the Algerian side of the story by meeting with fellagha leaders either in Paris or Algiers put themselves at the mercy of French security and treason laws...
STRATEGIC BOMBING. Under the mission assigned it by the Key West agreement of 1948,*the Air Force has exclusive rights to the intercontinental (5,000 miles) ballistics missile, is pushing its Atlas ICBM development program. But the Army argues that the ballistics missile is actually a sort of artillery shell, points to its own service mission of destroying enemy ground forces wherever they may be found-presumably including a Soviet garrison. On that basis the Army won authorization to work on Redstone, a 200-mile range missile, and with the Navy on Jupiter, an intermediate-range (1,500 miles) ballistics...
...Russians got strategic products and processes that saved them both research, manpower and years of development time. No longer is the U.S. strategic list to be taken seriously, says McClellan. The Battle Act, designed to halt U.S. aid to countries selling to the Soviet bloc, "has become an empty shell...