Word: torpedo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thirteen heads of state were invited to last week's Arab League Meeting in Casablanca, but only twelve showed up. The absentee was Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who sent his regrets in the form of a 10,000-word memo randum intended to torpedo, if not the whole affair, at least its main personality, Egypt's Abdel Gamal Nasser...
...ASROC. A surface-to-subsurface rocket that can deliver a torpedo or a nuclear depth charge, ASROC is the mainstay weapon of all ASW surface ships, is currently operational on 130 and will be on 20 vessels more by next June...
Such a move would, of course, torpedo Desai's chances over the next two years, and he promptly attacked it as "a negation of democracy." The impact of his charge was quickly dissipated: as Desai ended his speech before the hushed house, the chair ruthlessly adjourned for lunch. A few hours later, Kamaraj was reinstated as Congress president...
...Major Draia, commander of the national security units charged with protecting the President, to arrest Ben Bella. Though they captured him at 3 in the morning, Boumedienne's men took no chances of a rescue by Ben Bella partisans. They hustled their prisoner aboard a Russian-built torpedo boat, landed him at a small town west of the capital, drove to a nearby air base, then flew Ben Bella to the remote Saharan city of Tamanrasset, a favorite prison site since French colonial days...
...dimly lit spot on the far rail of the ship, the muffled voice of a chaplain is heard, a bass drum rolls, and a splash sounds over the starboard side. Later on, men are heard practicing their bathroom baritones ("Yo-ho, Pagliacci, I got a waterproof watchee") when a torpedo strikes. There is a rending of metal, an explosion, and finally the sucking sound of water rushing through a hole. The singing stops. All four men died in the shower room...