Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mark 106" system, considered one of the Navy's most sophisticated anti-mine devices will also be towed by helicopter, and it produces a "multiple output" of signals that can detonate acoustic, pressure or magnetic mines...
Getting the mines out could take several months, the Navy says, and will start only when the North Vietnamese government approves the final mine-sweeping plan. Estimated cost: more than $1.3 million...
...extent of damage rather than the causes seems to horrify Soviet reporters. Strip-mining, which accounts for about 75% of the U.S.S.R.'s manganese output and 30% of its coal, has become a favorite target. In the Ukraine, the Literary Gazette reports, one mine has turned its surroundings into "a lunar landscape." Another mine was described as so destructive that "to restore fertility would need 50,000 years." The article quotes a surface-mine manager as saying "We are waging an insane war with the earth...
...streets of Paris are a gold mine for Frederic's greedy eyes. But he has no pressing moral problems. Plain bourgeois doldrums weigh down his pillowed existence. He paces his office like a lover distracted over his erratic Chloe, and fails to see that his abstemious attention is a species of marital disloyalty. He has confused the word and the deed, the moral letter and the moral spirit, and invented a crisis out of wineglass stuff. And for-all the difference it would have made, he might as well have slept with Chloe. It is a very Catholic confusion. Chloe...
Another friend of mine was on the 1970 drive into Cambodia. His company ran into elements of the North Vietnamese Army holed up in a Cambodian village, and they called in massive air strikes. As American fighter-bombers screamed in at tree-top level. North Vietnamese soldiers stood calmly in the center of the village, firing rifles at the planes. People like this could never be stopped by mere technology...