Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet that over the past year the Soviet Union has deployed up to 12,000 combat troops on Shikotan and two other isles in the southern Kurils, less than twelve miles off Japan's northeastern shore. The division-level force, he said, was equipped with tanks, SAM antiaircraft missiles and about a dozen Hind assault helicopters...
...most of the contest, the Crimson got two bad breaks in a row that cost it the game. A penalty set up a free kick by the Big Red from just outside the penalty area. Harvard goalie Ed Weinfurter reached up to fist the ball just as Cornell forward Sam Fisher lept for a header. From there the events were unclear...
Whether Jones sleeps easily at night is a matter between him and his pharmacist. But reader's of "Irrevy:" An Irreverent, Illustrated View of Nuclear Power may conclude that the nuclear industry is killing people on a scale the Son of Sam could only dream of. Author John W. Gofman asserts that everyone in the industry shares responsibility for the peculiar modern crime of "premeditated random murder." Gofman chairs the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, which has published his collection of talk given at anti-nuclear rallies and in a debate with Edward Teller, famous for his H-bomb paternity...
...lawyer by trade, he is breezy, tough and smart - and responsible. He was disturbed when ABC made Barbara Walters an anchorwoman; he was even more offended when Arledge began hyping up ABC News - a process that reached a nadir with the tabloid-style coverage of the "Son of Sam" murder case in 1977. Unable to match Cronkite's authority and popularity, Arledge countered with the gimmickry of three anchormen, "tossing" the news from Washington to London to Chicago...
...first red-shirted harrier to cross the finish-line was John Murphy, and even he did not show up until eighth place, with a time of 26:18, thirty seconds behind pacesetter Sam Weller from Penn...