Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plays--consists of mute "idiots" and insubordinate and sharp-witted soldiers who clown around until, inevitably, one of them dies. As the characters have been seen before, the lines, too, have a certained hackneyed ring: "We're a peace-loving people and that's why we are going to bomb Constantinople off the map." "It's not our's to reason why. It's yours to do as you're told--and die," and of course, "Who's really in charge and who's really responsible...
After a checkered past, the cruise missile's time has come. A descendant of Germany's V-I buzz bomb, the cruise proved ineffective when first tested by the U.S. in the 1950s. One study reported. "The average miss distance was over 1000 miles. At least one came down in the wrong hemisphere, disappearing somewhere in the interior of Brazil." In fact, the professional military never wanted it, but as technology improved through the 60s, civilian leaders saw its value. Still today it would seem that nuclear doctrine has lagged behind the ramifications of the cruise missile just...
...went on, the wounded spoke about the tragic night, about miraculous escapes and comrades suddenly gone. Although the Marines appeared alert and energetic, their shaking hands betrayed their emotions. Lance Corporal Mike Balcolm, 20, of Vernon, N.Y., was lying awake on his bed on the fourth floor when the bomb went off. He blacked out; when he revived, he found himself pinned under a jumble of concrete. After his cries for help went unheeded, he grabbed a wire and painfully pulled himself through a crack in the rubble. While Balcolm was being treated at a makeshift hospital, however...
Private First Class Alejandro (Alex) Muñoz was going to be home in New Mexico for Christmas. After the Sunday bomb attack, his parents and eight siblings despaired of ever seeing him again. But then, unlike most of the families of troops who had been billeted at the destroyed building, Jesus and Manuela Muñoz got good news from the Government. On Monday, an aide in the Capitol Hill office of one of New Mexico's Senators phoned and said that Alex was alive. "We jumped up and down hugging each other," says his father, a machine...
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara were dubious about the prospects for a "surgical" strike limited to the missiles. If the U.S. wanted to "knock out" all Soviet weapons capable of hitting American soil from Cuba, said McNamara, it would have to bomb "airfields, plus the aircraft... plus all potential nuclear [warhead] storage sites." The President's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, fretted that such extensive bombing would "kill an awful lot of people," in which case it would be "almost incumbent on the Russians" to threaten a strong counterblow, perhaps...