Word: ship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months after North Korea seized the U.S. Navy intelligence vessel, Pueblo is still a fresh topic for 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists and National Guardsmen called to the colors since last January's crisis. Although tempers have cooled and negotiations for the release of the captive ship and its crew are dry-docked amid lengthy diplomatic wrangling, the reservists could be kept on active duty for as long as two years...
Beer & Cyanide. The Biafrans have little left to eat except fruit and their customary yams and cassavas-and even these starchy staples are becoming scarcer. Unable to ship in supplies, they have for months virtually had to do without the protein-rich dried fish, beef and milk that before the war they bought outside the region. More important, the Biafrans have been driven from their richest croplands. Farming has been utterly disrupted by the war and, now that the rainy season has come, there will be almost nothing to harvest for weeks...
...government, headed by Major General Yakubu Go- won, accuses the Biafrans of purposely allowing suffering for the sake of "waging psychological war and seeking diplomatic advantage." The government points out that the Biafrans, led by Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, have turned down a plan to have the Red Cross ship food through federal territory to Biafra. But Gowon insists on federal handling of any such shipments, and the Biafrans fear that his men would poison the food: they cite instances of beer laced with cyanide and powdered milk infected with bacteria found in Biafra. Even if Gowon allows the shipment...
...that footage purporting to show atomic-bomb damage in Hiroshima Mon Amour was not authentic, but had been lifted from an earlier Japanese atrocity film. She is equally discerning with movies that are morally pretentious. With "holy hindsight," she wrote, Screenwriter Abby Mann and Producer Stanley Kramer had used Ship of Fools to heap scorn on Germans and Jews who lacked the prescience to see that Nazism was coming. The film, she asserted, implies too facile an equation between shipboard rudeness and the Final Solution. "Hitlerism," Kael maintained, "was not produced because people don't love each other enough...
...NASA officials, the mock space voyage had particular significance. To prevent a repeat of last year's tragic Apollo fire, they had spent $75 million improving and fireproofing the lunar command ship. And apart from some unexpected itching from the astronauts' new flameproof space suits, and a temporary breakdown of the huge vacuum testing chamber, the modified capsule's first full-fledged ground test was an unqualified success...