Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scorn for Suasion. In a rare show of unity-and with no other recourse-Washington, London and Moscow all threw their weight behind a United Nations effort to arrange a ceasefire. With a unanimous Security Council vote behind him, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant hurried off to the Indian sub continent, where his homilies were greeted with outright scorn. After two days of fruitless meetings in Rawalpindi, a Pakistani official said: "Thant's visit is like a Boy Scout blowing his whistle, tweet, tweet, and telling us to be good. We have been good long enough...
...project of the U.S. Navy and the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sealab is the nation's most ambitious effort thus far to explore and eventually exploit the ocean's great store of food, oil and mineral resources. In Sealab I, which sub merged last year off Bermuda, four Navymen proved that they could stay down at 192 ft. for nine days. Now three teams of ten aquanauts each plan to stay underwater for 15 days at a stretch, with Carpenter remaining a whole month...
...noted Martell, is currently spending $2.5 billion a year on ASW-only $2 billion less than it spends on strategic missiles and bombers. One reason is that the Soviet navy has a 430-sub fleet, including 150 new long-range models, of which 30 are nuclear-powered-compared with the U.S.'s 134 subs (51 nuclear). Another cause for concern is that the Russians have recently concentrated on long-range offensive strategy. Over the past year, Red subs have been sighted in strength for the first time in the Mediterranean and the Philippine Seas...
...ANEW. A control system for coordinating data from sensing equipment on sub-hunting planes and sonar devices dropped from planes; it is under development...
...into no outer guards, were on Danang's runway before they met their first challenger. Carrying coffee to a guard on duty down the line, a U.S. Air Force enlisted man spotted the raiders, emptied his pistol at them - and was cut down by a burst of sub machine gun fire. He was the only American killed...