Word: tsunamis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tsunami. Their protests had been the most vigorous ever lodged against nuclear testing, both in the U.S. and overseas. Environmentalists and peace groups demonstrated in front of the White House, in Alaska and in Canada. More than 30 Senators led by Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke sent an eleventh-hour telegram to President Nixon urging him to call off the blast. The Japanese government registered official reservations over the explosion and the possibility of a tsunami, or tidal wave, hitting the Japanese islands...
...only funny if he were not receiving millions of U.S. military aid every year. In 1967, for example, Guatemala got $1.7 million worth of military aid, while $500,000 of Alliance for Progress went to the police force. (Letter from Guy A. Wiggins, Guatemalan Desk, State Dept., quoted in Tsunami, Catholic University, Mar, 1969, cited in Thomas and Marjorie Melville, op. eit., p. 28) All of Guatemala's top colonels are trained by the United States (Castillo Armas was a Fort Leavenworth grad), and all the counter-insurgency Ranger troops are trained at Ft. Gulick, Panama Canal Zone. But then...