Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Carter's ruling, there was a brief stir in the courtroom when Randolph Hearst received a message and suddenly left. A bomb had badly damaged a luxurious guest house at San Simeon, where Publishing Tycoon William Randolph Hearst, the family patriarch, had built his private Xanadu. The castle, 250 miles south of San Francisco, is now owned by the state. A little-known terrorist group, the New World Liberation Front, announced that it had set off the violent blast. Unless the Hearsts contributed $250,000 within 48 hours to the defense of the Harrises, warned the unit...
...South Vietnamese lived in rural areas. By 1970, more than 65 per cent of the population was concentrated in the cities as a result of the American government's forced draft urbanization program--a program which left the Vietnamese countryside defoliated and riddled with 30-foot-wide bomb craters. Saigon's population skyrocketed from 450,000 to nearly four million by the time we left. Three million South Vietnamese were left unemployed. Many had worked for Thieu's army or civil bureaucracy, or in American-financed factories processing American raw materials. Two hundred thousand Vietnamese women had become prostitutes, while...
...Development could be held back on the new U.S. cruise missile, a jet-propelled bomb that can be launched from a plane or sub and has a range of 1,400 to 2,300 miles. Reason: the proposal would count any bomber carrying cruise missiles against the 1,320 MIRV limit set at Vladivostok. As a result, the U.S. would have to give up some existing MIRVed missiles, such as land-based Minuteman Ills or submarine-based Poseidons-a sacrifice that the Pentagon is unwilling to make...
Mari Bras called this kind of violence "valid" because it was aimed directly at "colonialist interests." But he drew the line at the terrorist attacks carried out by the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberation National (F.A.L.N.), the mysterious splinter group whose bomb killed four people in Manhattan a year...
...that certain safety systems were inadequate. "I was shaken," he said. "I thought we had built in overkill." Like Hubbard and Briden baugh, he was also upset by U.S. plans to sell nuclear reactors to Israel, Egypt and South Africa, and with India's detonation of an atomic bomb...