Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what purpose the neutron bomb [July 25]? Looking beyond the political and military rhetoric, there is only one purpose. Mr. Carter calls it an option. The military calls it a deterrent. I see it as simply an instrument of destruction. The priorities governments hold are somehow distorted. We, as Americans, may finance an instrument designed to destroy men not buildings. It's totally absurd. Why value a brick over...
...bomb that destroys people without destroying buildings! If we have come this far with modern technology, couldn't we design a bomb that destroys buildings and weapons-and not people...
...York's uninhibited courting habits and added a new travail to an already painful summer in Job City. The metropolis, which is still only a few legalistic steps ahead of fiscal insolvency, has suffered through a nightmarish blackout and looting, a bloody bus hijacking and last week two bombings by Puerto Rican independence terrorists. One man was killed and seven people injured, while other bomb scares over two days forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 workers from their buildings...
...delusion to think 1 that the country is finished with what sused to be called Woodstock Nation. Pierre Joseph Proudhon warned about "the fecundity of the unexpected." The present comparative quiet probably will not last. Issues such as nuclear energy, the arms race (the neutron bomb), the environment, the economy, unemployment and the urban underclass all lie in wait for anyone who approaches the future complacently. It would of course be difficult for history to duplicate the long, wild hallucination of the '60s. But Rahv's ten-year rule applies to historical pauses as well as upheavals...
...praise increased the gang's arrogance-and may have contributed to its fatal carelessness. Once the West German federal police set up special squads to cope with the terrorists. they found their quarries easy prey. In 1972 Baader blundered into police hands by racing up to a clandestine bomb factory in a flashy purple Porsche (the gang had a capitalist weakness for luxurious cars). Meinhof naively fell into a police trap in a village near Hannover...