Word: bombed
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TIME has followed the Sakharov saga since 1961, when the man who helped develop the Soviet H-bomb went on record opposing atmospheric testing of a 100-megaton weapon. In February 1977 a cover story focused on his pivotal role in organizing Soviet human-rights campaigners. And last October TIME featured excerpts from Alone Together, the autobiography of Bonner. Says Talbott of Sakharov's views in this week's issue: "His arms-control advice could hardly be more timely. It comes just as the negotiations in Geneva are showing their first serious signs of progress since the debacle at Reykjavik...
...speech, which was originally scheduled to be held in Austin Hall's Ames Courtroom, was delayed by a half-hour after Law School officials received a telephoned bomb threat. Police decided to move the audience of about 350 to Langdell Hall...
TODAY THE United States is procuring and deploying the hardware--the neutron bomb, cruise missile, B-1 bomber and Pershing II--that will enable it to fight at the intermediate rungs. Most frighteningly, the Reagan Administration is also actively pursuing the Holy Grail of nuclear war-fighting: the capacity to launch a pre-emptive first strike that would destroy the Soviet Union's own second strike capability...
...Soviet Union last week conducted its first nuclear experiment in 18 months, after saying repeatedly that it would soon resume nuclear testing because the U.S. was doing the same. The news agency TASS announced that scientists had detonated a 20-kiloton bomb in Kazakhstan, near the Chinese border...
Harvard never managed to wrest the lead away, however, and Dartmouth stiffened after Webster's bomb. The Crimson got within four points a number of times down the stretch but could never get any closer to the Randall-led Green...