Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington, in turn, has considerable reason to be irritated with the Soviets. Despite the Administration's cancellation of the B-l bomber and deferral of a decision on the neutron bomb, moves that Carter hoped might bring some corresponding gesture from Moscow, the Russians have shown little flexibility in SALT or in the talks to control conventional arms in Central Europe. Instead, they have continued expanding their military arsenals at a brisk pace. They also concealed sophisticated bugging equipment inside the U.S. embassy in Moscow and launched a campaign of harassment against American businessmen and journalists...
...also was the FBI'S most important informant on the Ku Klux Klan's violent activities in Alabama. Rowe provided the bureau with information on the Klansmen's beating of black Freedom Riders at a Birmingham bus depot in 1961. He tipped off agents about a bomb shortly before it went off at a Birmingham church, killing four young black girls in 1963. His testimony sent two Klansmen to prison in connection with the murder near Selma, Ala., of Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist from Detroit, in 1965. Then, to protect Rowe from Klansmen...
...behavior, psychologists have frequently been asked by the military to apply their special knowledge to adapting various animals to warfare. During World War II, the Allies developed and tested plans to use "incendiary bats," which would come to rest under the eaves of buildings and set off small fire bombs attached to their chests. The Swedes had plans for using trained kamikaze seals to blow up submarines, and the Soviets for bomb-carrying dogs to attack tanks. In the 1940s, Behaviorist B.F. Skinner proposed installing a trained pigeon in front of a screen in the nose of a missile...
...battalion, the facts cannot. To be commemorated properly, Camus ought to be seen not as a statue but as a man, as flawed as his fellows. His loyalty to France, for example, could blind his foresight. "America," he declared in 1952, "is the land of the atomic bomb." When an American critic, Lionel Abel, countered, "You'll have one here, too, as soon as France can afford it," Camus confidently replied, "Never...
...better word for the hard-working Kraft. He aspires to be as wide-ranging as Walter Lippmann once was but lacks Lippmann's rumbling, reflective authority. He gets around as Lippmann never did. Kraft can dispose of Jerry Brown one day, the Federal Reserve or neutron bomb the next, argue in another column that Carter follows "a policy of divine misguidance" (he has from the beginning condescended to Carter), then emplane to the Horn of Africa to see things for himself. Kraft talks to everybody and is well informed, but his judgments are made on the wing...