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...fewer than 215 occasions since the end of World War II, the U.S. has seriously threatened to unleash some of its military might-from a single warship to a nuclear strike force-in order to gain diplomatic leverage. In the same period, the Soviet Union has rattled its sabers 115 times. This means that the two superpowers have gone to the brink of war-or made it look as if they were preparing to go to the brink-an average of nearly once a month since...
...most intense skirmishing took place in the late 1960s. In 1966, six American soldiers were killed in a North Korean ambush near Panmunjom. In 1968-the year the U.S. warship Pueblo was seized by North Korea while on a reconnaissance mission-there were 760 incidents in the DMZ, including 356 outbreaks of shooting, with a total of 500 deaths on both sides. In the past 2½ years, however, the zone has been relatively quiet. Until last week, there had been no American deaths since November 1974. In the interim, the most serious injury was suffered by Major Darryl Henderson...
...Only in May did the Maryland State Convention finally request that Eden "depart peaceably with all his effects." Eden agreed. A fortnight ago, the entire Annapolis Council of Safety went to take what one witness called "an affectionate leave of their late supreme magistrate." As he boarded a British warship, the citizenry presented him with several sheep, lambs and baby hogs. his well-wishers hoped he would return "whenever we shall happily be restored to peace...
...tests of his torpedo. It is a watertight oaken container, shaped like an egg and large enough to hold 150 pounds of gunpowder. The explosive can be detonated by a gunlock connected to a clock. Bushnell's plan is to have the Turtle attach the torpedo to an enemy warship by night and then escape before the explosion. At one demonstration of a model torpedo for Connecticut officials, Bushnell reported that the explosion produced "a very great effect, rending planks into pieces and casting stones, with a body of water, many feet into...
...biggest warship in the convoy, as it turned out, was not Egypt's. It was instead the 14,600-ton guided missile cruiser Little Rock, flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The Little Rock was trimmed with flags, including the Stars and Stripes, which flapped visibly in the hot summer wind. Two Soviet admirals among the guests in the flotilla-Moscow's sole representation at the ceremonies-glowered and gloomed...