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...that America had largely backed off from Plowshare, the program to use atomic explosions for peaceful purposes. The Soviets, by contrast, are ambitiously experimenting with nuclear explosives to quarry mineral, oil and natural gas deposits, to dig out giant water basins and even to carve new river channels to divert excess water into the Caspian Sea, which is slowly drying...
...building. Though I.R.A. men fired on the rolling bomb, only a portion of the gel ignite exploded. The army responded by going on the offensive against I.R.A. strongholds, dispatching 700 troops to the Lenadoon Avenue area alone. Soon firing flared up in half a dozen Catholic areas, perhaps to divert troops from the Lenadoon hot point. The heaviest action took place in Belfast's Lower Falls area, where troops and gunmen exchanged 3,000 shots and the I.R.A. used rocket launchers for the first time. The toll: 24 dead (including six soldiers) since the fighting began-or 436 since...
McGovern's opposition to the Viet Nam War, his determination to divert defense funds to attacking domestic problems and his sense of social justice are cited by many of his wealthy supporters as overriding reasons for their donations. If McGovern's election will mean that they will have to pay higher taxes, a common reaction is: "We can afford it"-suggesting that he is perhaps more of a worry to middle-income groups. Moreover, some feel that they and others who are rich should pay more to help the poor. Asks Henry Kimelman, McGovern's national finance...
...short months ago, the war seemed to have receded as a campaign issue. Heartened by President Nixon's withdrawal of nearly 500,000 U.S. troops from Viet Nam, war-weary Americans were more than willing to divert their attention to problems at home. Then as the North Vietnamese pressed their military advantage in the South and the U.S. responded with expanded bombing attacks in the North, the war that will not go away once again preyed on the national conscience...
...leader of the group, who called himself Captain Rafat, was later identified as Ali Taha, 34, a onetime Jerusalem tour guide and seasoned skyjacker. In 1968 he helped divert an El Al jet to Algeria, and two years later participated in one of the fedayeen's most spectacular feats: the simultaneous skyjacking of three jets to the Jordanian desert...