Word: bombe
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MacGyver, TV series ... fatal homemade bomb in France...
...Here, however, Reitman misreads the audience's pulse. The villain of Legal Eagles is a pathological firebug, and Reitman tries to play it like Arson and Old Lace. (He punctuates this theme with a performance- art piece by Hannah so bizarre it could empty movie houses quicker than a bomb threat.) Which leaves the top two stars to their own considerable resources of charm and mother wit. Redford looks terrific, and has honed his stutter-step diction into a cagey character trait. Winger, unflatteringly photographed, is still the most ingratiating of Oscar-worthy actresses. Neither deserves to be laden with...
...reasonably effective Star Wars defense would reduce to virtually zero the number of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) getting through outer space to their targets. But critics respond that virtually zero is not enough when nuclear weapons are involved. Moreover, the Soviets have other ways to deliver a bomb--from offshore submarines or cruise missiles, for example, neither of which could be intercepted by proposed SDI technology. SDI planners see their defense as a multilayered ''architecture'' that could blunt a Soviet attack during the three distinct stages of delivery: the missile's boost, or launch, phase; midcourse, essentially the intercontinental...
...bombers and low-flying cruise missiles. Yonas acknowledged that defending against cruise missiles is ''really not part of SDI.'' To stop a bomber or cruise-missile attack would require an extremely costly air- defense system. Even then, an enemy could no doubt find ways to transport a devastating nuclear bomb to the U.S. While acknowledging the risk of an intensified offense-defense spiral, Perle speculated that the Soviets might not even try to overwhelm a partly effective shield against ballistic missiles. ''It just may be,'' he said, ''that the development of a defense would discourage the Soviets from making...
...Echoes of ValuJet questions bounced around my head. Had the TWA jet crashed because an incompetent mechanic missed something? Because a bogus part sold to the airline by shady dealers had failed? Or was the plane blown out of the sky because lax security had permitted a bomb to be hidden on the plane or slipped aboard as luggage or cargo...