Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seattle. The doctors insert two plastic tubes in the patient's forearm, one into an artery and the other into a vein. With the patient's own heart serving as the pump, his blood is led into a loop of tubing and carried behind a lead shield. There, it is subjected to massive bombardment-with isotopic radiation by Dr. Eugene P. Cronkite at Brookhaven, or with X rays by Dr. E. Donnall Thomas' group in Seattle...
...Human Shield. In South Viet Nam, the gases have been used on the battlefield at least half a dozen times, but never with much success. The first time was last December in an attempt to free four U.S. prisoners of the Viet Cong. U.S. officers hoped to incapacitate everyone, prisoners and captors alike, then send in a masked Special Forces Unit to rescue the Americans. The operation failed because the gas, squirted through air hoses from a helicopter overhead, could not penetrate the dense foliage...
...another occasion, the Viet Cong seized a group of villagers and tried to use them as a human shield. Rather than kill women and children, as they had done in a similar situation last year, South Vietnamese troops tried to knock out everybody with gas. They failed because of adverse winds, and had to retreat. The last use of gas was on Jan. 27, when Viet Nam government troops tried to flush a guerrilla force from a heavily fortified network of trenches, tunnels and caves, but again were foiled by tricky winds...
...final 50 yds., and arriving at the pinnacle placed there a copy of Jack Kennedy's inaugural address, a packet of PT-boat tie clasps, similar to the ones that the late President used to give visitors and voters. He also planted the Kennedy family flag-a shield showing three gold helmets on a black background, topped with a hand holding four gold-tipped arrows. Bobby meant to leave the flag there, but his colleagues warned him that the winds and snows would destroy it within 48 hours. He removed it, furled it and brought it back home...
...adopted in 1934 to thwart Nazi spies hunting German assets that had fled and were hidden abroad. Later Geneva was regarded as the financing center for both extremes in the Algerian war-the French O.A.S. and the Algerian F.L.N. Today some U.S. officials believe that the banks shield dol lars that have evaded U.S. taxes and foreign aid funds diverted by grafters in underdeveloped nations...