Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lies mostly in its outrageousness. Its sights are trained equally upon every sacred cow. During last year's Christmas special, for example, Prince Philip was shown clutching a bottle of liquor, with Princess Anne collapsed on his shoulder and a housewifely Queen sporting a button that read BAN THE BOMB. In another sketch, a wooden Prince Charles knocks forlornly on his wife's bedroom door, calling, "Does one want to do a jigsaw with one?" Prince Andrew's fiancee Sarah ("Fergie") Ferguson has already become one of the show's targets. And even the little princes William and Henry...
...minute away, the whizzo tells his pilot that the computer is locked on to the target. The pilot presses a button on his throttle, turning command of the plane's bomb-release mechanism over to the computer. As the plane roars toward its target, the bombs are released to drop in a controlled fall. Then, in what is called a toss, an evasive maneuver to avoid damage by the explosion of his own bombs, the pilot suddenly takes the plane up to about 1,200 ft. Though the plane is wrenching upward, the Pave Tack system, mounted on a device...
...last week's mission, the F-111s used 2,000-lb. bombs of the Paveway II ! class. The bomb's nose contains a laser-sensing device, a computer and small movable fins for stabilization and control. The sensor homes in on the reflection of the laser off the target; the computer moves the fins to make minute midcourse corrections. Each F-111 emits a laser at a different frequency, which only its bombs are programmed to detect...
...Palestinian arrested in the West Berlin nightclub bombing has been identified as the brother of a man accused in Britain of trying to bomb an Israeli airliner, West Berlin officials said...
...President reacted to the public uproar with a bombing that seems to have accomplished nothing but filling a few more coffins. It didn't topple Khadafy, and it won't even put a dent in terrorism. The United States and its leaders don't have inexhaustible attention, effort, and resources. They shouldn't waste what little they have on a miniscule, tough-to-solve, technicolor problem when so many staggering, but low-profile, problems being neglected. There would be fewer graves to dig if Reagan and the press realized that it is their responsibility to focus attention on and find...