Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading the article "Underground Fortresses" [Aug. 25], I am again forced to realize that Russia need not spend thousands of dollars and take the risks of sending spies to find the defense secrets of the U.S. For a few dollars a year, the Russians can subscribe to magazines such as TIME and learn all the information they need...
...large numbers without straining the Soviet economy. If the Russians continue to make their tests in the atmosphere, U.S. nuclear physicists can come to fairly accurate conclusions about them by measuring the shock waves that they create, and by catching and analyzing their radioactive byproducts. The results of underground tests would be easier to conceal...
...Khedda promptly disappeared into the underground, surfaced a few months later in the Kabylia Mountains as the political commissar of an F.L.N. guerrilla band headed by famed Belkacem Krim. Moving on to Algiers, Ben Khedda helped plan and carry out the ruthless terrorist campaign in which killings of Europeans ran as high as a hundred a month. He lived under four aliases, grew a large mustache, boldly frequented the Cafe Otomatic, a favorite hangout of European rightists. The F.L.N. grip on Algiers was not broken until the summer of 1957. when General Jacques Massu and his French paratroops began...
...infantry occupied the transmitter site on the outskirts of the city. At Katanga army headquarters, Irish troops intercepted Belgian officers on their way to work. Most of Katanga's 634 white officers surrendered expeditiously and were promptly put under U.N. detention pending expulsion from Katanga. Others prudently went underground or sought asylum at Elisabethville's foreign consulates. The 11,600 black Katanga troops remained passive, possibly because U.N. soldiers staged ferocious public bayonet drills and small-arms exercises in a pointed show of power. Remarked one senior Indian U.N. officer...
Future Americans may be the offspring of disabled or even long-dead fathers who foresightedly left their "germ cells" deep-frozen in an underground bank. Future parents may be able to leaf through a germ-cell catalogue and pick the father of their next child on the basis of "personifications of their own ideals-the generally admired primary virtues of high character, keen all-round intelligence, and sound physique," and such traits as "a joyful disposition, musical proclivities, aptness at repartee, rapid calculation, courage or endurance...