Word: disarmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the heavy door was ajar, four masked men with handguns suddenly appeared and ordered the Wells Fargo employees to disarm and close their eyes. The gunmen handcuffed the four employees and began heaping the cash into a nearby Wells Fargo truck. Within minutes they had stashed $7,896,000, leaving some $12 million behind. The truck was later found abandoned under the Brooklyn Bridge. Said New York City Chief of Detectives Richard Nicastro: "They were very calm. And they did it in a very cool and collected manner...
...would be protected by a latter-day version of ABMs called ballistic missile defense, or BMD. If American missiles and command centers were effectively guarded with radar-guided interceptors and death rays that could destroy incoming warheads, the Soviet Union would never be tempted to think that it could disarm and decapitate the U.S. with a pre-emptive strike. In principle, the Soviets could have a similar system...
Admitting with a grin that he expected neither the West nor the Soviet Union to disarm completely, he added, "A seductive slogan is the most powerful political instrument. The Americans don't understand that. They only hurt themselves in struggling against the idea of general and complete disarmament. What they are doing is as futile as Don Quixote's fighting the windmills." Propaganda and true negotiations, he said, should be not contradictory but complementary...
...atmospheric pressure on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands is reported to be 1,029 millibars, the trap is sprung and all the Soviet computers connected to the Craig 1 suddenly begin churning out gibberish. After an initial panic, two Soviet programmers uncover the first softbomb and manage to disarm it. But they know that there are other software traps hidden in the machine, and the search for them leads to a series of electronic cliffhangers...
...contemporary ruler is as crafty and consistently surprising as Shakespeare's Henry V, it is surely King Hassan II of Morocco. Like Prince Hal, Hassan was once a high-spirited playboy who has managed to disarm his critics by adroitly consolidating his power. Since he inherited the throne at age 31 from his father Mohammed V in 1961, Hassan has worked hard to make himself and his kingdom Western, Arabic and African all at once. He can play by turns the extravagant cosmopolite who rides horses with President Reagan, and the devout Muslim who is officially known as Commander...