Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unreconstructed intelligence men protest that this is no way for a secret organization to behave. They argue that the BND can now be infiltrated by counterspies armed with nothing more lethal than an application form. One answer to that, of course, is that the BND was unable to keep out double agents even when it was most secretive. To Gehlen's embarrassment, in the 1950s the Soviets stocked his organization with so many former SS intelligence men that Moscow had to do its own personnel work. When too many counterspies became concentrated in certain BND departments, the Kremlin pressured...
...speaks of America's participation in Vietnam as a "nine-year project of torture and terror," and urges Americans to resist obedience to "the dangerous lethal authorities of this system...
...neglects to mention that it was he who was one of the lethal architects of that nine-year project. Remember those pictures of the gung-ho civilian Ellsberg in 'Nam, wearing fatigues and toting...
Middle East nations are far from the only customers for Western weapons. Other developing countries, including Turkey and Venezuela, are also eager buyers. In addition, the major arms-exporting nations sell about half their lethal wares to industrial powers like themselves. The U.S., for example, imports Beretta light machine guns from Italy and sells Phantom jet fighters to West Germany...
...explosion, as well as hot plastic fragments which are undetectable by X-rays when embedded in the body. These pellets can't pierce steel, cement, or sandbags--they are designed to tear unprotected human flesh. One mother bomb can saturate an area the size of ten football fields with lethal shrapnel. Time-delay fuses are designed to explode some bomblets before they hit the earth so as to kill those sheltered in trenches; other bomblets don't explode until well after the air raid, when medical assistance has entered the bombed area...