Word: two
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genuinely fearful of war. The Soviets recently created a new Central Asian Command along the border, and have resumed propaganda attacks in Mandarin Chinese broadcasts. Deeply suspicious of collusion between Moscow and the West, some Chinese diplomats suggest that the simultaneous meetings of the NATO and Warsaw Pacts two weeks ago were no coincidence...
...leave early to avoid a commotion. Only once since the kidnaping have Elbrick and his wife ventured out for a private dinner with friends, and security precautions turned the evening into a shambles. The besieged ambassador cannot even risk using his limousine. He travels in a convoy of two or three nondescript sedans, choosing a different one each time to confound would-be abductors...
...Two-day Rush. Today, historians describe the battle as Hitler's last great gamble, and German generals who survived the war as one of his great blunders. In interviews with several of those generals, TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate learned how they sought to alter der Führer's plan, and how the postwar history of Europe might have changed had they succeeded...
...generals is Hasso von Manteuffel, who in 1944 led the Fifth Panzer Army, one of the two spearheads of the battle. Manteuffel, 72, now lives in quiet retirement near Munich. He told Cate how he and other officers under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander in Chief West, protested that Hitler had set an impossible timetable by ordering a two-day rush to the Meuse, 50 miles distant. "Das ist unwiderruflich [This is irrevocable]," said General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations at supreme headquarters, slamming his fist on a conference table. Manteuffel, a dedicated bridge player, suggested that Hitler...
Protesting "tyranny, sadism and so-called benevolent despotism," Sirhan Sirhan began a hunger strike at San Quentin. His specific grievance was his forced separation from other convicts on Death Row. The warden was unmoved. Under close medical observation, Robert Kennedy's convicted killer subsisted for more than two weeks on instant cocoa and coffee, plus his regular reading diet of Arab newspapers and Playboy...