Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driscoll said it is unlikely that individuals will be able to steal radioactive material from nuclear plants in order to build their own atomic bombs, but did warn of the possibility that as more and more nations develop atomic weapons one of them will use a nuclear bomb...
...Committee for White House tape recordings and documents. Only two Republicans (McClory and Hogan) supported this article and only two Democrats (Mann and Alabama's Walter Flowers) opposed it. Defeated by identical margins of 26 to 12 were proposed articles based on Nixon's secret orders to bomb Cambodia, and his "attempt to willfully evade" federal income taxes and use public funds for improvement of his private properties at Key Biscayne and San Clemente...
...provided the air force with incorrect map coordinates of the area in which it would be steaming. Since Turks and Greeks both sail warships provided by the U.S., the Turkish pilot mistook the Kocatepe (ex-U.S.S. Harwood) for a Greek destroyer and sank it with one well-placed bomb...
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino was handed a note during the impeachment debate last Thursday afternoon. He glanced at it, then arched an eyebrow at CBS Reporter Roger Mudd, who followed a messenger from the committee room. Mudd learned that a bomb threat was about to interrupt the meeting and that the bomb's alleged location was in "a CBS camera." "I guess that this is one of those things that television brings," he said on the air during the ensuing recess...
Unblinking Coverage. The same could not be said for newsmen from ABC, which drew the Wednesday session under the networks' rotating-coverage plan (only the Public Broadcasting Service carried every meeting). When the committee was slow to reconvene after a bomb threat, Co-Anchor Man Howard K. Smith quipped unfunnily that the Representatives could "use a good TV director." At the end of the session, Smith concluded that he "would hate to spend three hours a night, 365 days a year" watching congressional committees in action-a bit of instant disparagement that seemed totally out of place...