Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...namely: The U.S. will blow you to pieces if you don't stop what you're doing in South Vietnam and so forth, and call off the war. And Pham Van Dong said lots of things in reply but to the effect of, We expect you to bomb, we carried out this war eight years without Hanoi or Haiphong against the French, we'll do it again. Kissinger didn't know that. It was secret. He'd been on the outside then...
Four counties in Washington and Oregon put into effect an emergency preparedness plan, devised in 1970, that calls for erecting a command post to coordinate emergency power needs at a remodeled bomb shelter in the Kelly Butte area of Portland. The Red Cross installed a bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost...
...LABOR-MANAGEMENT time bomb is ticking in anticipation of the November 12 expiration of the current United Mine Workers contract. The confrontation promises to burst into a protracted strike with potentially crippling effects on the American economy. The strike will climax the present period of flux in the relationship of the coal industry to the national economy. This changing relationship has been caused by rapidly rising oil prices, which have given coal new importance as an abundant source of energy. The increased importance of coal has given the U.M.W. new leverage in contract negotiations, and the Union hopes to close...
Something old, something new-or newer, anyway. A dotty old bomb expert concocts a superbomb that he uses to blackmail an entire city. About 20 years ago it was called Seven Days to Noon. The city was London, and the scientist attempting to stop construction of atomic weapons threatened everyone with thermonuclear destruction if his demands were not met. In the movie's own stiff and militaristic terms, this was enough to establish the scientist's madness. Preparedness was quite the thing back then, and anyone who wanted to stop the arms race was probably round the bend...
...Another war will be much more costly than the last one in all respects. For instance, we are rebuilding the cities in the Suez Canal Zone. If the Israelis bomb those cities, we will retaliate...