Word: minuteman
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Stollman might have to back up his threat, because spokesmen for Briggs and Briggs, The Coop and Minuteman Radio Inc. have indicated that they will not run the risk of court action in order to sell the Fugs...
...Thursday afternoon, the Fugs and The Fugs First Album were unavailable in Harvard Square. Managers in the Coop and Minuteman Radio, Inc., said the records would be on sale if and when copies could be obtained from the distributor...
...more than a decade, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have maintained a nuclear balance of terror. Today the Russians possess approximately 400 intercontinental missiles, 125 submarine-launched missiles and 700 medium-range missiles targeted on Western Europe. The U.S. has 940 Minuteman ICBMs, which can take off in 32 seconds, 54 Titan II missiles, which carry considerably more megatonnage than the smaller Minuteman, and 608 sub-borne Polarises-1,602 birds in all. With additions already under way, the flock will soon total 1,720 and pack a combined wallop equal to 1.8 billion tons of TNT, more than...
...nearly a year. They reported that the would-be guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain experience and, possibly, arms. Planted officers participated in field maneuvers designed to perfect homemade bombs and hone the group's commando tactics. In one exercise, a Minuteman was observed firing cans of peas from a mortar at a pasture full of cows, while a forward lookout called back range corrections...
...translate as "fire arrow," but Peking's English translator rendered them as "guided missile." In Western terms, a guided missile is an anachronism: one of those winged, jet-propelled vehicles, like the Snark and the Navaho, that American aerospace companies were working on before the ballistic missiles like Minuteman and Titan were developed in the late 1950s. Some Western sources think the Chinese used a copy of the Russian SS-4 missile, a true rocket propelled by liquid fuel and capable of carrying a miniaturized nuclear warhead 1,000 miles. If the Chinese mounted an outsized atomic "device...