Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outrider of the Roman Catholic peace movement, which has shifted its protests from Viet Nam to the arms race. Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, was excommunicated after marrying a Sacred Heart nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; she is serving a three-year prison sentence for vandalizing a B-52 bomber. The couple try to alternate prison terms to care for their three children at Jonah House, a communal residence in Baltimore. Brother Daniel Berrigan, 63, a Jesuit, works with a New York City peace group and counsels AIDS and cancer victims at a Manhattan hospice...
...which supplies the Government with everything from washing machines and light bulbs to engines for the B-1B bomber and nuclear reactors for ships, is determined to retain its share of the defense budget. The Fairfield, Conn.- based company, which in addition to the suspension faces a fine of more than $1 million if found guilty on all 108 counts of the indictment, denies there was any criminal wrongdoing. The alleged fraud occurred between January 1980 and April 1983 while the company was refurbishing Minuteman warheads. One of the contracts on the $47 million project included a "fixed price incentive...
With the transition from elementary to high school in the second act, the play witnesses a surge of physical energy. The songs become more explicit!" sexual in tone, the conflict between spirit and flesh more prominent. All of this makes for some intersting satire, including a rendition of "Mad Bomber" by the guys' physical education class and "Saving Ourselves for Marriage" by their female counterparts. By far the most successful satirical seene, though, is the high school dance, in which the mins don black sunglasses and rock in doo-wop harmony...
Since then, the rancor has been aggravated by philosophical differences. Dornan, once dubbed "B-1 Bob," has flown the controversial bomber and is a devoted fan. He also comes down on the Administration's side as a staunch advocate of U.S. support for the anti-Sandinista contras in Nicaragua. Downey calls the B-1 "a flying frying pan" and has repeatedly criticized policies on Nicaragua...
...most areas." He also complained that the Pentagon is building too many duplicative weapons designed to carry out the same mission. The Air Force, for example, has five major development programs under way to improve its ability to penetrate Soviet air defenses: an upgrade of the B-52 bomber, two new bombers and two cruise missiles...