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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airfield's radio beacon, they face worse harassment from a twin-engine Nigerian Ilyushin the pilots call "the Intruder." The Ilyushin hovers over blacked-out Uli every night for four hours, drops 500-lb. bombs from time to time, and forces the food planes to pull up and scatter. Its pilot breaks into their radio frequency in mocking, accented English. "This is genocide, baby," he taunts. "Come on down and get killed." Some do. Two mercy planes have crashed in the eleven months since the airlift got under way. The eight crewmen killed in the crashes lie in simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: Come on Down and Get Killed | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...Sprint-type weapons): a concept, now in an early phase of study, that involves mounting defensive missiles on surface vessels so as to intercept enemy warheads before the landbased defensive system could reach them. Among its advantages is the possibility of destroying an enemy missile before it could scatter a number of separate warheads and decoys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Missileer's Thesaurus | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...occasionally rings true, like a quarter in a handful of slugs. Roscoe Lee Browne as a traitorous homosexual and Raymond St. Jacques as the head of a cryptofascist cell seem authentic archetypes emerging from a historical shadow. Boris Kaufman's camera work briskly comes to life when Negroes scatter the police with a hail of curses and broken bottles. But such fragments stand alone in an unawakened film that can only pretend to tell the truth. In search of black authenticity, the viewer might better spend his time reading LeRoi Jones or Eldridge Cleaver. One may find these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Negative | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Brewster's new proposal is in response to the angry reaction of students to his initial proposal that Trumbull College men scatter among the other residential colleges to allow women to completely occupy that dorm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overwhelming Eli Student Majority Approves Brewster's Coed Program | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

...editor of the Yale Daily News said Brewster was "hissed and embarrassed" in a stormy meeting with residents of Trumbull College, who would have to scatter among the other residential colleges. Students in other Yale colleges also objected to the proposal, and urged that women be equally distributed among the colleges, occupying one or more entries in each. The student protest threatened to delay coeducation until the Fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Will Admit Women in 1969; May Have Coeducational Housing | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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