Word: blasted
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Beyond the ineffective and brief Operation Blast Furnace, in which U.S. helicopter crews carried local raiding parties into Bolivian jungles to shut down a few coca laboratories in 1986, U.S. troops have done little antidrug work abroad. The Navy has permitted Coast Guard officers aboard its ships along likely drug routes to make arrests if they come across smugglers. Some 75 U.S. military and police advisers are in Colombia on antidrug training missions...
...Khark 5, en route from the Persian Gulf, had been steaming toward Rotterdam when the blast crippled her in rough seas some 100 miles northwest of Casablanca. The cause of the explosion remained unknown last week, although Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh attributed the blast to the rupture of one of the ship's storage tanks during a storm...
...Fuchs did not give the Soviets the secret of the Teller-Ulam bomb, who did? Hirsch and Mathews suggest that Teller himself may have inadvertently - assisted the Soviets by pushing for an early test blast. The 1952 explosion peppered the atmosphere with a telltale assortment of radioactive debris, including new atomic elements that could have been created only by a compressed fusion reaction. When Hirsch and Mathews asked Bethe if that fallout could have tipped off the Soviets, Bethe instantly said yes. Says Hirsch: "It was as though he had been waiting 35 years for someone to ask him that...
...entire society." What this grand but vague formulation has meant in practice is the scaling back of coercion and the introduction of an unprecedented, until recently unimaginable degree of pluralism. As he put it in his 1987 book Perestroika, "It is possible to suppress, compel, bribe, break or blast, but only for a certain period...