Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their way the valleys throughout Nevada and Utah will be dotted with 200 asphalt oval tracks, 20 ft. wide and 10 to 15 miles long. The "race tracks," as the Pentagon calls them, will be traveled at 5 m.p.h. by the largest military vehicle ever built, lugging the nation's most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile. Last week the race-track plan, projected to cost $30 billion, was endorsed by a high-level Administration committee; Jimmy Carter's approval is expected later this month...
Deploying nuclear weapons on the oval tracks is intended to solve the most serious threat to the nation's land-based strategic arsenal: the possibility of a surprise Soviet attack obliterating nearly all of the 1,054 U.S. Minuteman and Titan iCBMs. Pentagon strategists have long believed that the best antidote to this vulnerability would be a mobile ICBM known as the MX. They had considered underground trenches, which proved vulnerable, and special planes, which proved very expensive...
...victim of aggression? The 4 million Palestinians have the highest rate of education in the Middle East, and yet they are not recognized by many countries. This is immoral; it is an international crime. What have we done to have suffered 30 years without a home, a passport, a nation, living as refugees, without rights...
...called himself "The One True Miracle of Equatorial Guinea." With the possible exception of Uganda's deposed dictator, Idi Amin Dada, no African despot has been more brutal and erratic than Francisco Macias Nguema, the President-for-Life of his tiny West African nation...
...Francisco, last week's nearby earthquake notwithstanding, still insists that it is the nation's best city to live in. Virginia smugly assumes the primacy of her heritage as the Mother of Presidents, even though (as North Carolinians like to note) she has not been pregnant since the 19th century. Similarly, the Midwest, beneath that humble mien, firmly believes itself to be the "true America" that many observers have christened...