Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Local actions peaked again following the President's decision to mine North Vietnamese harbors, but after a feared nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union failed to materialize, these actions rapidly subsided. Already weeks behind in their school-work. Harvard students returned to classrooms and libraries, thankful that a holocaust had not enveloped the world but still despairing because the air and naval onslaught on North Vietnam continued unabated...
Electric power is a marvelous, inexpensive household genie. But it causes violent and lasting disruption elsewhere. Oil spills at sea, strip mining of coal on land, acid mine drainage into water supplies-these are some of the hazards of extracting fuels from the earth. When the fuel is burned, it is done wastefully; the average plant converts only 35% of fuel into power, and the rest disappears in the form of smoke and heat. The process is dirty. According to Government statistics, electric power plants account for half the sulfur oxides and significant amounts of the nitrogen oxides and soot...
...only the Russians have the sense to mine Saigon's approaches, maybe the war will really be left to the Vietnamese...
...mines were sown in a random mix: some are acoustic (set to explode upon locking into the sound of a ship's engine), some are magnetic (reacting to steel hulls), while others are triggered by changing water pressure created by a ship's passage. Still other U.S. mines are "counters," which allow a number of ships to pass harmlessly overhead and then explode on, say, the tenth or 15th ship. Thus a Soviet trawler concentrating on clearing one type of mine would run the risk of being blown up by another variety...
...execution of a revamped U.S. international monetary policy was at once suave and tough; it was essentially his hard-line protectionist thinking that underpinned Nixon's devaluation of the dollar. Recently, in the face of some Cabinet uncertainty, Connally urgently backed the President's decision to mine Haiphong harbor. Yet last week, at the acme of his influence, Connally quit to return to Texas; he will be replaced at the Treasury by George P. Shultz, director of the Office of Management and Budget (see THE ECONOMY...