Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being used for welding and cutting steel. Lasers were used in Viet Nam to pinpoint bombing targets with a spot of light so that "smart bombs" equipped with infra-red sensors could seek them out. Since then, weapons researchers have been devising even more sophisticated uses for these potentially lethal beams of light...
...east coast of the continent, Soviet planes and warships use bases in Somalia from which they patrol the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Hormuz, which leads to the oil-rich Persian Gulf. At Berbera the Soviets are completing a sophisticated installation capable of maintaining and arming lethal ship-to-ship missiles...
...Lethal Garbage A reactor's wastes, mainly the depleted uranium fuel, are so highly radioactive that they pose serious risks to humans. Much of the waste will remain dangerous for centuries, and nuclear power critics argue that it is not fair to produce lethal garbage that could endanger future generations. Government experts are remarkably untroubled by that prospect. They point out that the total amount of waste that nuclear plants will produce by the year 2000 would fit, if stacked six feet high, on a single football field. The Federal Government proposes to bury the wastes deep...
Cuba's Fidel Castro. At least eight times between 1960 and 1965, the CIA plotted to kill Castro. American underworld figures and Cubans hostile to Castro were enlisted. The CIA gave them encouragement, as well as lethal pills and doctored cigars, but obviously the plots failed...
...committee found that the CIA was thoroughly conned by the Mafia. The agency promised the Mob a fee of $150,000 for Castro's murder, and even passed along some lethal pills to the supposed killer outside the Boom Boom Room of Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel. But the Mafia never did anything to try to kill Castro. Apparently the Mafia men involved were simply stringing the CIA along to gain its protection against FBI interference...