Word: ship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opportunity for mischief and arrogance. The difficulty of reacting without overreacting sets a definite limit on power. Thus Castro feels free to talk tough with Russia; the Rhodesians thumb their noses at the British; little Cambodia dares the wrath of Red China. And North Korea boldly hijacks a ship of the U.S. Navy...
...finishing strong underground bunkers for the control-tower crew of Khe Sanh's airstrip and the evacuation hospital, rushing to complete the work before the threatened battle erupts. Meanwhile, the doctors must make do in cramped quarters: the operating room is an empty metal box used to ship mili tary goods and measuring only...
...sites have more in common: all lie close to the lunar equator-and for good reason. Plans for the lunar mission call for the Apollo command ship to circle the moon in an 80-mile-high equatorial orbit while the LM descends to the surface below. Setting down the LM anywhere but near the equator would require change-of-plane maneuvers-both for landing and returning-that would consume large additional amounts of the craft's precious fuel. Once a launch time has been set, scientists will pick a site where the sun will be at least...
...Viet Nam, talks between U.S. and North Korean negotiators on the fate of Pueblo and her 82 surviving crewmen moved at a glacial pace in Panmunjom last week. The U.S. had little choice but to pursue the painstaking diplomatic route that it has been following since the ferret ship was seized at sea three weeks ago. "I don't know any way of getting them out alive by military action," said a top-echelon State Department official. "You might get them out as corpses...
...completely certain the order was followed during an eight-day period of radio silence maintained by the stubby vessel. Said Rusk: "We cannot be 1000% sure, until we get our officers and crew back and we have a chance to interrogate them and look at the log of the ship." If it then developed that Pueblo had sailed in territorial waters, continued Rusk, "it would not disturb us to let everybody know...