Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potentialities of seapower. In the early '60s, the Soviets began to build up their navy all over the world (TIME cover, Feb. 23). Now the U.S. must reckon with the Soviet force in the Mediterranean-and so must the Israelis. When Soviet-made Styx missiles, fired from a torpedo boat by Egyptians, sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said in an incident in October 1967, the Israelis dared not retaliate directly for fear of hitting Soviet warships near by. Now the Soviets have brought a dredge into the Mediterranean; should they try to use it to pry open...
...Free. Fortas was asked to appear before the committee for still another grilling last week, but he declined. Convinced that they had done sufficient damage to torpedo Fortas, the opposition forces on the committee agreed to send the matter to the Senate floor this week. There it will run into trouble-and not only on the pornography issue. The skillful managers of the case against Fortas, notably Senator Griffin, saw to it that new revelations about the Associate Justice were brought out almost every day. More doubts were raised by a disclosure last week that Fortas had accepted...
...income neighborhoods, where voting is not habitual, to produce solid crowds at the polls. And he succeeded in the face of several handicaps. Indiana is a basically conservative state. The Democratic organization, labor-union leadership and the state's two largest newspapers did their best to torpedo Kennedy...
...that man has a killer instinct; he simply does not fully realize the effect of pulling a trigger and blowing off another man's head. Modern long-range weapons further blunt his sensibilities. Mussolini's son extolled the bombing of the Ethiopians: "I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center of a cluster of tribesmen, and the group opened up like a flowering rose. It was most entertaining...
...with the Soviets, whose position is not yet totally clear. Moscow has a few choices. By joining the boycott, the Kremlin would improve relations with black Africa, gaining ground on Communist China, which can't compete anyway. On the other hand, Moscow could use its influence to torpedo the boycott, hoping to gain more from the prestige of Olympic victories than from the benefits of the boycott. As a third possibility, and not completely out of character, the Soviets could strike a compromise by continuing their denunciation of the South Africans, the IOC, and Brundage but competing in the Games...