Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past five years, Colorado authorities have been planning to build a new $22 million runway for Denver's Stapleton International Airport on about 600 acres of land belonging to the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal. The Army turned over the deed to the land in 1969, but as late as last May, it was forbidding jets to fly over the area because of unspecified "safety factors." Denver Mayor William H. McNichols finally went to Washington to find out what was causing the delay. He soon learned. Beneath the prospective flight approach, the Army still maintains a stockpile...
...stopped. Neither Congress nor any other official body wanted to have the "ultrahazardous materials" traveling across the U.S., and their safety under water was not certain either. The Defense Department then announced that it would spend $50 million to remove or destroy the chemicals at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Until recently, everybody assumed that the problem had been solved. This false impression was strengthened last year when the Army provided the Environmental Protection Agency with an inventory of what it had in its stockpiles. The extent of the nerve-gas supplies, about which the EPA had not specifically asked...
...still sitting ten miles from Denver, he was outraged. He telephoned newly appointed Defense Secretary James Schlesinger to express "doubt that the U.S. needs to maintain a nerve-gas stockpile as a deterrent, but that if it does, it certainly doesn't have to be maintained at an arsenal which adjoins a large metropolitan area...
...think if they could get together on their issues they could landslide everything in '76," said a 48-year-old blue-collar worker from the Redstone arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., who had his family of six seated in the front row at Point Mallard...
...sights and sounds in Lebanon last week suggested a string of grenades exploding among boxes of dynamite stacked against the wall of an arsenal. In the second week of deadly clashes between the military and Palestinian guerrillas, some Lebanese politicians and civilians actively sided with the Palestinians, raising the specter of a civil war. Beyond Lebanon's borders, other Arab nations and Israel stirred, triggering fears of intervention and a major Middle East confrontation...