Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wadsworth rejected the Russian offer as "ludicrous and completely unacceptable," he added hopefully: "At least we now know the range of bargaining." But Russia last week rejected out of hand another U.S. proposal: to pool obsolete U.S., British and Russian atomic devices in developing instruments necessary to detect underground atomic blasts. Since Russia did not intend to carry on any underground detection tests, declared Soviet Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin, there was no need for such a pool...
Last week FBI agents moved through Fayette County, trying to determine whether the Negroes' constitutional rights have been violated. The white folks pshawed all that talk of boycotts and blacklists. But the Negroes, using their own underground network of maids and cooks, secured two lists that are secretly circulating among white businessmen: one names 325 registered Negro voters in the county and singles out ten who are said to be "troublemakers"; another lists 70 new voters who registered last June, segregates the 25 Negroes among them. Braving the icy stares and stony silence of the white people...
...Coffey went with Burke to the Full Gospelers' houses and found them sealed up, with newspapers over doors and windows, keyholes plugged, plastic covers over cooling outlets. Neighbors remembered the sounds of digging a while back, and it began to look as if the Gospelers had all gone underground...
Last week a few Full Gospelers had come up to take their chances with the rest of the U.S., but most were still underground. One man emerged with two of his seven children; the other five and his wife insisted on staying below. Another Gospeler who left his shelter was Allen J. Harvey, 14, of Columbus, Ohio, who had come to Benson to see his girl, was assigned to a different shelter, and spent a month underground without seeing her. "We pray a lot," said Harvey. "The rest won't come up until the Lord tells them...
Tunisians insisted that there was enough water underground which could be tapped by wells to supplement the river supply. DLF officials mulled it over. Finally, when President Eisenhower paid his brief visit to Tunisia last December, Bourguiba told him that a Soviet trade mission had suggested that Russia would be only too willing to help build the dam if the U.S. did not. The DLF sent an expert to make a study. He reported tnat the Tunisians were right: there was enough underground water. Last week DLF announced that it would lend Tunisia $18 million, enough to assure the building...