Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political image maker could have hoped for a noisier sendoff. Last week General Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., 54, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, narrowly escaped death from an unidentified terrorist's bomb as he motored to NATO military headquarters in Casteau, Belgium. The blast missed Haig's Mercedes 600 limousine but blew a crater in the road, slightly injured three of his security guards and damaged their car. Two days later, Haig was jetting about Europe in a U.S. Air Force DC-9, receiving 17-gun farewell salutes. Said British Major General Geoffery B. Wilson...
...down government casualties, Somoza's troops last week began to shell rebel positions with heavy artillery before moving in to retake streets of Managua's barrios "yard by yard." But the indiscriminate shelling, along with devastating bomb and rocket attacks by Somoza's air force, has killed far more civilians than Sandinistas...
This happened during World War II, when the nation was galvanized by fear that Germany would produce the first atomic bomb, and the Government-funded, $2 billion Manhattan Project unlocked the secrets of nuclear fission. In 1961 President John Kennedy, stung by Sputnik and later by Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's orbiting the earth, decreed that the U.S. should put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. A synergistic exchange of technology among Government, science and industry had Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walking on the moon five months ahead of the deadline...
Nowhere is editorial ambivalence more apparent than on the question of supporting the Progressive magazine in its attempt to publish an article and chart showing how a nuclear bomb works. The magazine is now under federal injunction not to publish its report, an unprecedented case of prior restraint that is troubling to all editors. Overcoming their initial misgivings, the board of directors of the A.S.N.E. voted unanimously to support the Progressive's appeal. With somewhat less agonizing, the American Society of Magazine Editors last week announced that it too would back the appeal...
...editors came out clearly in a conference of journalists, lawyers and scientists assembled in mid-April by the Alicia Patterson Foundation to discuss the case. Several top scientists present agreed that the Progressive article could help such nations as Taiwan, South Africa, South Korea and Argentina to develop a bomb more quickly. No editor at the conference said he would have printed the article. Nor were editors impressed by Editor Erwin Knoll's stated motive to attack secrecy as unworkable and thus somehow to frustrate the nuclear arms race. Couldn't the point be made, they wondered, without...