Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claiming to be concerned about her welfare and that of "oppressed people." She insisted that she had not been "brainwashed, drugged, tortured, hypnotized or in any way confused" by her abductors. Included with the tape was a snapshot of Patty holding an automatic rifle in front of an S.L.A. cobra poster-a photo that was to become famous...
...draft convention of the U.N. Disarmament Conference, Richard Nixon five years ago ordered the destruction of all stocks of toxin weapons. But the CIA held on to 10.9 grams of saxitoxin, a close chemical cousin of the fearsome fugu, along with eight milligrams of a toxin made from cobra venom. That minuscule stockpile is enough, said Church, to kill "many thousands of people...
...months ago, CIA Director William Colby told the White House he had learned that someone had hidden away -presumably for future use-small amounts of the cobra and shellfish toxins at an agency lab in downtown Washington. The White House informed the Church committee, which this week will hold public hearings on the matter. Church hopes to discover whether the toxins were ever used in CIA assassination plots. He is even more concerned with the fact that the agency violated Nixon's command. The episode, he said, points up a "looseness of command and control within the CIA." According...
...case of all, that of Northrop Corp., the Los Angeles-based aerospace giant, which has a remarkable record of selling warplanes to foreign governments. Its tiny, efficient F-5 Freedom Fighter is flying in 17 countries; Chairman and President Thomas V. Jones foresees a global market for 2,500 Cobra II fighters, priced at $4 million to $5 million each...
Textron Inc. 's Bell Helicopter Division (Fort Worth), Huey and Cobra combat helicopters; $60.3 million...