Word: barrelfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automated and instantaneous. B-52s move in an electronic "bubble" generated by Rivet Ace, a highly classified system designed to snarl the latest model enemy missile radars. Fighters flying as low as 200 feet can be programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence of troops is revealed by tiny air-dropped sensors no larger than a twig, including magnetic metal detectors and "people sniffers" that respond electronically to the smell of ammonia...
...proved very helpful in reaching the otherwise inaccessible mountain hideouts of the Meo tribesmen. Now they produce STOL's for the Air Force for use in psychological warfare (equipped with speakers to broadcast to the country side), armed reconnaisance and precision air drops. The planes come armed with 3-barrel gatling guns, 2.75-inch rockets, and several new types of bombs, including TV. and laser-guided bombs, and bombs which follow a moving truck by homing in on its ignition system. The U.S. is giving them to the South Vietnamese as part of the Vietnamization program...
Died. Brian Donlevy, 69, barrel-chested Hollywood heavy for three decades; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. The son of an Irish whisky distiller, Donlevy joined General John Pershing's Mexican border expedition as a bugler when only 13, then lied about his age again to become a pilot in World War I. A walk-on part in a 1924 Broadway play led to larger roles and his eventual move to Hollywood in the mid-'30s. There he established the tough-guy image epitomized by his portrayal of the brutal sergeant in Beau Geste...
...American dollars will help to pay a large portion of Portugal's critical expense in Angola, the military budget, which was $50 million in 1970. Gulf payments are made in several ways: there is a surface rent of $70 per square kilometer on the concession land; there is a barrel tax of ten cents a barrel on the extracted oil; there is a royalty of 12.5 per cent on all petroleum produced, which may be taken by Portugal either in foreign currency or in oil, both of which help to fuel the war machine; finally there is an income...
...Payette and Snake rivers claims a badge of prosperity that is rare on the smalltown scene: regularly scheduled air service. Airline service to small towns has never been particularly good and, because of rising costs, it is now going the way of the trolley car, the cracker barrel and the general store. During the past five years, 77 small communities have been lopped from airline route structures. Today fewer than 150 Payette-size towns have scheduled flights...