Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walkie-talkies. A kibbutznik tells me the walkie-talkies are used to warn Hanita and other border towns of rocket attacks detected on the Israeli radar screen. The Israelis use a secret code in case their messages are intercepted. We are supposed to head for the nearest of several bomb shelters if anyone shouts the Hebrew warning Hafligah...
Your story on the neutron bomb [April 17] is yet another example of unfair attacks on Carter. The first four paragraphs leave the impression that he can't make a decision. Only after attacking Carter do you give the facts: military and political leaders differ sharply over the bomb, and none of the key NATO countries will commit themselves to allowing it in their territory. Carter has made the only possible choice. He is not wasting $4 billion producing a useless weapon, and he is not precluding future production should the situation change...
About Carter's B-1 bomber and neutron bomb decisions: all the Russians have to do is be patient; in a few years we will be a defenseless, unionized, inflationary, welfare state...
...neutron bomb supporters' argument that its destructive potential would be a deterrent to war is as absurd today as it was 111 years ago, when Nobel invented dynamite. We already have enough bombs to obliterate the planet; we don't need another...
...driven his car home the night before because their own car wouldn't start. The three left the Letelier home at 9:15 a.m.--Michael Moffitt in the back seat, his wife and Letelier in the front. Just as they passed the Chilean embassy in downtown Washington a bomb exploded in the car. Both Letelier and Ronni Moffitt died shortly after their arrival at the hospital; Michael Moffitt escaped with a minor head wound and bruises...