Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prosecutors got a second chance last week in Los Angeles. In a move reminiscent of the 1960s, the Federal Government handed down indictments against the four police officers whose acquittals last April set off the worst riots in two decades. As expected, they are charged with violating King's civil rights when they arrested him on the night of March...
...love circle," explains Laze, a 26-year-old graffiti artist from the Bronx who has also attended raves in Philadelphia and Washington. "It's like a 1960s scene -- all the races are together, dancing, having a communal experience. We want to go to Woodstock and rave for a whole week...
...with lead to block out the radiation. They carried extra radiation suits in canvas bags for the President and First Family. If the pilots could not reach the bunker through the rubble, a second rescue unit stood ready with heavy equipment, including cranes, to extract the President. In the 1960s the squadron was moved to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, and remained operational until...
...President, the National Security Council and a succession of crisis agencies, most recently the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Their wartime duties are spelled out in the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations, a loose-leaf notebook containing hundreds of pages of regulations, most of them drafted in the 1960s and '70s. Specific "action plans" are in agency vaults and relocation sites, to be implemented by officials in nuclear exile. Today's plans rely on redundancy. If one location is wiped out, others will take its place. Officials are divided into three squads -- Alpha, Bravo and Charlie. One team stays at headquarters...
...taken part in constructing the Ramenki bunker described it to a Soviet newspaper last year as an underground city about 500 acres in size, built at several levels ranging in depth from 230 ft. to 395 ft. He said the bunker was begun in the second half of the 1960s and completed by the mid-'70s, could shelter as many as 120,000 people, and included food supplies that could last up to 30 years. Quarters for top leaders were comfortably appointed, and movie theaters were built for entertainment. Some 30 miles outside Moscow in Sofrino, an underground broadcast-communications...