Word: hydra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo's political Hydra still had three heads: Colonel Joseph Mobutu, Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba. But each now seemed to have lost even the vigor for plotting one another's doom. All had their squads of gun-toting guards, but the most strenuous weapon any dared to use was the press conference; in one day harassed reporters covered five. Now and then, one or the other summoned energy for a daring stroke, then subsided quietly. Colonel Mobutu, complaining of fever and frazzled nerves, seemed mainly content to send occasional squads of his troops through the streets...
...Navy officially talks of the water-launch system, which it calls Project Hydra, as being used for very large, space-voyaging rockets. But military uses may be more important. Solid-fuel missiles, built so that they will float nose-up, might be anchored under the surface in protected places such as the lagoons of Pacific atolls. They would be easily moved, hard for an enemy to find, and almost impossible to damage except by the near-pinpoint hit of a nuclear weapon. Their guidance systems would know exactly where they were, so they could be programed to strike...