Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation. But what a spirit! Again these gallant peoples have gone to the mat for the cause of a freedom they may never enjoy. Dubcek must have known that the Soviets would never allow him to succeed. But he must have known also that they would be forced to use the only powers they can be sure of-deceit, murder, and subjugation-to keep their empire from crumbling at their feet. Perhaps now the "peace at any price" people will see Munich revisited, and come to realize that America must stand firm at the frontiers of freedom...
Still, the feeling persists that the U.S. might have done more to protect Prague. Before the invasion, the Administration had made clear to the So viets that the use of force might seriously jeopardize Soviet-American relations. Missile rattling would have been meaningless because there was no willingness to back it up. The Soviets knew that; Washington knew that they knew it. Almost any overt U.S. involvement could well have given the Russians a further excuse to crack down on Prague...
...triggered them in Moscow. One of the real dramas of the invasion of Czechoslovakia took place in the Kremlin, whose leaders have been locked in debate for weeks about whether to strike down Alexander Dubcek's liberal reforms. Why did Russia's leaders finally decide to use fists instead of flexibility...
...tubes, firing pointblank "beehive" rounds of metal slivers that turned back the assault. In only one sector of the town were the Communists tem porarily successful, as they infiltrated almost two battalions into the southern fringes of Tay Ninh. In the ensuing battle, the allies were sorely tempted to use heavy weapons on dug-in Communist forces. Bomb-laden jets actually circled over the town at one point. But, in contrast to Tet and the May offensive, when whole blocks of cities and towns were knocked down, artillery and bombs were not used in Tay Ninh, and the Communists finally...
...Craig Kauffman, 36, studied architecture at the University of Southern California, went on to get a master's degree in painting at U.C.L.A. Tiring of abstract expressionism, he tried painting on Plexiglas, got the idea of doing rectangular wall pieces when vacuum-molded plastic came into wide commercial use as a sealed wrapping for all kinds of merchandise. Finding no literature on the process, he sought out craftsmen at the commercial factories to learn the technique. Now he himself makes the wood molds in his studio, takes them to a factory, where he supervises the casting process. - Douglas Wheeler...