Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, since many chips go into materiel that is used only once, like missiles and bomb fuses, their dependability remains uncertain until they are tested in action. But the Pentagon insists that the National Semiconductor chips pose no threat to U.S. security...
...ruse was the idea of Star Managing Editor William Coughlin, 61, a former Los Angeles Times Beirut bureau chief. After the Oct. 23 truck-bomb attack...
...have been rejected by Khomeini. Most Western analysts take Saddam Hussein's latest threat seriously: if Iran achieves a breakthrough on the ground, they believe, Iraq may feel compelled to attack Kharg. Saddam Hussein probably could not destroy the facility, since it is well protected, but he could bomb the tankers at the loading docks and disrupt Iran's oil exports. In October Iraq received from France five sophisticated Super Etendard fighter-bombers, which can be equipped with lethal Exocet missiles...
...long been a bombshell, on TV's Flamingo Road among other places. But in Time Bomb, an NBC-TV movie that will be aired later this month, Morgan Fairchild, 34, will add a more literal meaning to her reputation as a mankiller. Fairchild plays the leader of a gang of gun-toting terrorists who attempt to hijack a truckload of weapons-grade plutonium in Texas. "I hope it doesn't seem too Hollywood," Fairchild says. "I have this little porcelain face, and short of taking a hammer to it, there's nothing you can do." Still...
...Hart, in 1982, opposed the construction of two large aircraft carriers, arguing instead for more usable and less vulnerable smaller craft. In foreign policy, Hart opposed U.S. backing of Nicaraguan contras, called for the removal of U.S. marines from Lebanon before more than 250 were killed by a truck bomb. He has opposed the spread of technology that is suitable for weapons use, and has proposed negotiations on way to reduce the possibilities of an accidental nuclear...