Word: torpedo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort in South Viet Nam by arguing that the country should be neutralized, recognized Red China. Last week he tipped three more bowls of hot porridge into the U.S. lap. In a single busy day, France moved toward a major new economic agreement with Russia, hinted that it might torpedo U.S.-supported tariff talks in Geneva this spring, made it clear that it will support the admission of Red China to the United Nations. Beyond all that, De Gaulle hopes to increase French influence in Latin America, where he plans to visit Mexico this month and several other countries...
Castro accused U.S. agents, "operating from Florida," of sinking a Cuban torpedo boat off the Isle of Pines on Christmas Eve. "A great explosion." he thundered, "cost the lives of three compañeros of the revolutionary navy and the blood also of 17 others, who were wounded. This was a criminal attack, a cowardly attack, an unjustified attack." An anti-Castro exile group calling itself Commandos Mambises and operating from a Central American base claimed credit for the raid. But Castro directly blamed the U.S. and President Johnson: "That was the CIA Christmas present to the Cuban people. President...
...preholiday week went on, the mood swung between exhilaration and gloom. Having threatened to torpedo the Common Market, Charles de Gaulle kept up the pressure by telling a visitor: "After all, we could always be a large Switzerland"-a reference to the separate path that France could take. But the spur of a deadline and the ministers' eagerness to get home in time for a peaceful Christmas produced some compromises in Brussels...
...though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough. Africans fretted that Johnson, although he had outraged Southern conservatives in 1960 when he tacked civil rights legislation onto a minor bill and rammed it through the Senate, would torpedo civil rights. And Moscow was alarmed that Johnson, despite the fact that he had argued recently that it "might be possible to relax some points of conflict" with Russia, would scuttle Kennedy's attempts at achieving a detente...
...oleomargarine to cigars. As if this were not enough, the Pentagon this week will take the wraps off an unusual, top-secret new missile developed by Goodyear (though rubber plays only a small part in it) under a $200 million contract. Called SUBROC, the missile is launched from the torpedo tube of a submerged submarine, shoots out of the water into the air, seeks out an enemy sub miles away and dives in for the kill...