Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, pressure is possible in the military area. The U.S. has already delayed, but not denied, shipments of F-16 fighters and other advanced weaponry, has refused to sell concussion bombs to Israel, and promised to supply Hawk missiles to neighboring Jordan...
...high school friends say Berkowitz, once a military hawk who turned pacifist while in Korea, may even have sought release as a conscientious objector (the Army does not publicly discuss such matters). More portentously, Berkowitz's letters began to ramble incoherently, use odd imagery-and he signed at least one letter "Master of Reality." He apparently abandoned some of his religious fervor at this time, began swearing, which was out of character for that period of his life, and became ever more withdrawn and disagreeable...
...that, another pilot was killed when his plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga for an audience that included Navy Secretary W. Graham Claytor and Budget Director Bert Lance. Financial losses on the Hawk-er-Siddeley planes, which now cost $3.4 million each, so far have totaled $60 million...
Sociobiology tries to resolve the dilemma. Its solution: altruism is actually genetic selfishness. The bird that warns of an approaching hawk is protecting nearby relatives that have many of the same genes it has?thus increasing the chance that some of those genes will survive. Sterile female insects work and give their lives to promote the spread of genes they share with their sisters...
...staff to follow through in collecting evidence. Getting witnesses to cooperate is a major problem. One of the ugliest open cases at the moment involves a twelve-year-old boy accused of stabbing an adult. The child is a "chicken," or male prostitute, and his victim was a "chicken hawk," his homosexual customer. After being wounded in his own bathtub, the man called police and signed a complaint. Stitched up and calmed down, he now wants to forget the whole thing. The boy remains free...