Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your diagram of tactical nuclear weapons graphically illustrates the steps of escalation each side would inevitably be forced to take once the very smallest A-weapon had been used. As part of the same inexorable process, strategic weapons must follow until the "ultimate" (100-megaton?) bomb would be launched by the side still able to do it. This elementary fact must be brought home to those who still cannot grasp...
...Bombs & Strikes. It was hardly a unified group, comprising disgruntled tin miners, a small group of right-wing Socialist Falange Party members, and anyone else with a grievance against Paz. But the malcontents did make trouble. The capital city of La Paz rocked to frequent bomb explosions, bridges were blown up, and in the eastern jungle area of Santa Cruz, Falange guerrillas took advantage of local unrest to kick up a series of bloody skirmishes with government troops. Last December the tin miners took 17 hostages (including four Americans) in a dispute over government arrests of two union leaders...
...this time, and that means plenty is going to happen, none of it original. The characters, except for a regulation Blimp (Stewart Granger), are stir-type stereotypes: a bomb-tossing boyo (Mickey Rooney) from the I.R.A., a Little Caesar (Raf Vallone) with eyes that smoke like gun barrels, a twitchy-faced psychopath (Henry Silva) so hipped on homicide that he murders babies when he runs out of adults. What's more, the plot is a weary old war horse: the villainous heroes, who fight at the start to save their own skins, fight to the finish to save...
Five Negroes had been murdered in the McComb area during the spring and violence soon greeted the new COFO workers. On July 8 a bomb blast destoyed the front of the Freedom House where ten workers were sleeping. Curtis Hayes was badly cut by flying glass...
...organ. And, also, usually those festival prizes go to movies I never understand. I mean I certainly liked "One Potato, Two Potato" but some young people left the theatre muttering about how important a "nuclear family" is. But I guess some people never stop thinking about the bomb...