Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chemists, it is known as phencyclidine hydrochloride, but youngsters on this latest and fastest-spreading high know it as "angel dust," "rocket fuel" and "goon." The substance packs such an unpredictable wallop that the user may lapse into a coma, hallucinate or bristle with hostility. In California and elsewhere, use of the drug -especially among teen-agers-has reached epidemic proportions. It accounts for 10% of all drug-overdose cases in some Los Angeles hospitals. San Francisco authorities suspect that at least five murders in the past year involved users of the compound. First developed in the 1950s by Parke...
...slip under the Soviets' line-of-sight radar to deliver 200-kiloton nuclear warheads with astounding accuracy-within 100 ft. of their targets. One version, the ALCM-A (for air-launched cruise missile), has a range of 750 miles. A second version, the ALCM-B, has extra fuel tanks that extend its range to about 1,700 miles...
...Fuel Source. Pérez is keenly interested in a U.S. oil-extraction process that could allow Venezuela's big Orinoco tar pools to be developed as a fuel source. The problem is that Caracas nationalized the petroleum industry 18 months ago and now many firms are wary of risking more capital in Venezuela with its new, highly nationalistic investment rules. As for the question of preferential tariff treatment for Venezuela, eliminated by Congress for all OPEC members after the 1973 oil embargo. Carter promised to do all he could to get Congress to rectify the punitive measure...
...Hong Kong last week some of the newest refugees from Viet Nam told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein of the long, laborious preparations they had made for their escape. First a boat had to be acquired, then supplies and fuel were hoarded-in small quantities, so as not to arouse the suspicions of the security police. Nguyen Duyen, 39, a former South Vietnamese naval officer, started plotting his escape as soon as the Communist tanks began rumbling toward Saigon in the spring of 1975. He sold everything he owned to buy a fishing boat, but his escape plans were interrupted when...
Though many Americans are staying close to home, more of them than ever before will be traveling. Some 37 million families will be on U.S. roads this summer, up 4% over last year. Jimmy Carter's warnings about fuel conservation have, if anything, merely persuaded Americans that they had better take their trips now while there is still enough gas to go around. Says Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist: "There's a tremendous resistance to anything that threatens the use of the car. The reaction to Carter's proposed five-cents-a-gallon tax was almost violent...