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...Aleutians. The signal was given and in one-tenth of a millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled to the bunker 23 miles away. Seismographs registered a shock of the magnitude of seven on the Richter scale. But neither the earthquakes nor tidal...
...followed by Royal Marines in desert khaki and pith helmets, Royal Highland Fusiliers in tartan caps, men of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Artillery. "It is quite an occasion-an historic occasion," said Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett, the last head of the British Far East Command...
However the group also called "the lack of executive and legislative of command from the Governor's office to the Department of Correction a primary factor in creating the current prison crisis...
...widely thought to be defunct. Suddenly he is among us again, the schoolmaster's tone unmistakable, the detachable collar and know-all smile the same he wore when he disappeared several decades ago. How pleasant to become reacquainted with the Omniscient Novelist! He raps for attention and takes command, knowing that his characters cannot be trusted to display their twitches properly without his professional help and that readers need firm and expert guidance to follow what is going...
...rich but raw instant history, Oberdorfer devastatingly exposes the illusions about supposed enemy weaknesses that beset the American military command in 1968. Although U.S. officials in Saigon knew well in advance that a general offensive was being planned, they refused to believe that the North Vietnamese could mount one. The Communist general order of attack was intercepted and then published as a U.S. embassy press release-25 days before Tet began. Still, the order was officially dismissed as "internal propaganda" designed solely to inspire the Communist troops...