Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the plotters called "Operation Charlotte Corday"*), an air force lieutenant colonel named Jean-Maria Bastien-Thiry. A brilliant engineer known as "the French von Braun" for his invention of the guided SSII missile, he masterminded both Petit-Clamart and an earlier attempt in which a napalm and plastique bomb was planted on the route to Colombey. De Gaulle commuted the death sentences of two other Petit-Clamart conspirators, Jacques Prévost and Alain Bougrenet de la Tocnaye. But he refused to grant clemency to Bastien-Thiry, reportedly because the attempt had been made when Mme. de Gaulle...
...MILITARY. Every athletic contest represents some sort of war, from the King-Riggs sexual skirmish to the bloody knockdowns of professional hockey. But the very terminology of football - marches downfield, throwing the bomb, guards, strategies - recalls the Von Clausewitz spirit. For the first time in ten years the viewer, accustomed to another living-room war, can watch these armies with no sense of unrest...
...port in Nature that the black hole's passage through the atmosphere would have left a deep blue trail of ionized particles like the streak seen by witnesses near the 1908 blast. Finally, the energy released by the black hole (comparable to that of a ten-megaton hydrogen bomb) could easily have caused the observed damage without leaving material residue or a crater...
...staff. Maria McGuire hated the dour, puritanical MacStiofain (who since has been replaced as the Proves' top military man). His Roman Catholic scruples would not even let him bring back from the Protestant North a box of contraceptives his men needed to make acid fuses for their bombs. In her book, the Provo leader emerges as a ruthless, Machiavellian schemer, hooked on violence and callous about casualties. "What does it matter if Protestants get killed? They're all just bigots, aren't they?" she quotes MacStiofain as saying after a car bomb had killed several passersby...
...also try for maximum utilization of the planes. The cargo planes carry 24 tons of cargo, and if they are available for carrying soldiers, then we have used them. We certainly don't use them to bomb or to carry ammunition," Mirasel contiued...