Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bomb explodes in Israel, a wealthy Frenchman shoots out his brains in Paris, a priest gets shot in New Jersey. The only connection is blood: Sorcerer is less a movie than a bloodthirsty sadist's splicing of Technicolor newsreels. Even when the story--such as it is--gets going, the movie sidetracks for occasional carnage when it can't salvage enough from the plot itself. ("Maybe it's time," we imagine the director saying, "for a heavy cement pipe to crush a few native workers...
...Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots of them would eventually find work on other military projects did little to soften the blow. Said one official at Rockwell's sprawling Los Angeles plant: "This was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb. And that's the way it hits...
...have a decided advantage over Bls in carrying cruise missiles. Pentagon plans call for stowing eight ALCM-A or ALCM-B missiles aboard each modified B-52. In addition, twelve ALCM-B missiles would be attached to the B-52's wings. Though the B-l's bomb bay can accommodate 24 of the shorter-range ALCM-As, it is too small for the ALCM-Bs; nor can the B-l carry any variety of cruise missile on its wings...
When the last Americans were evacuated from Saigon, they left behind them a million orphans, 181,000 physically disabled Vietnamese, and three million unemployed South Vietnamese. Even more serious, perhaps, was the total economic and social dislocation of the Vietnamese population caused by America's decision to bomb and defoliate the Vietnamese countryside, disregarding--or, more probably, desiring--the consequences that action would have on a primarily agrarian society...
...other way, tens of thousands of commando groups set sail from "safe" Miami waterfront homes for Cuba. Some of the group still in Miami were responsible for Watergate crimes; others continue to pursue an unofficial campaign of anti-Castro terrorism today. That campaign has included a number of recent bombings, both in and out of the U.S., and a bomb explosion on an Air Cubana flight last October that killed 73 people. In telling the story of this enterprise, the CBS program offers several vivid vignettes...