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...photo I.D. system used in South Africa. In fact, Foster was opposed to the system and by skillfully leaking information to appropriate community groups had managed to nearly kill the plan by the time of his assassination. Foster and his chief aide Robert Blackburn, who was severely wounded by shotgun fire in the SLA attack, were so popular with Oakland liberals and virtually every Oakland community group that many West Coast leftists were certain that the SLA was a CIA or right-wing plot to provoke an attack on the Left...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: The SLA: Revolutionary Irresponsibility | 5/29/1974 | See Source »

...when they converged on the hideout on Friday morning, no one was there. Left behind were some clothing, boots, wigs for disguise and two boxes of shotgun shells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fiery End for Five of Patty's Captors | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...which the President is responsible" in his tax returns for 1969 through 1972. Declared Representative M. Caldwell Butler, a Republican member of the committee from Virginia, in a metaphor of dubious reassurance to the White House as it entered upon the crucial week: "The staff has put down its shotgun and picked up a rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The President Prepares His Answer | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...that year: $76 million). They adopted a strategy of doing everything a bit differently from the Big Three. The most important decision was to concentrate on small cars, rather than offer a wide range of autos. "You capitalize on your strengths," explains Luneburg. "We are not shooting with a shotgun. We are shooting with a rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New Pacesetter | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...launcher tipped with a package of three independently targeted warheads that can hit widely separated, preplotted targets. Some Soviet missiles in operation then also had multiple warheads, but they were not independently targeted. When fired, they sprayed from the missile launcher along a straight line like pellets from a shotgun. In addition, though the Soviets had more missile-firing submarines, U.S. subs were quieter, making them harder to detect, and many of the American SLBMS carried from ten to 14 warheads each. As a further deterrent, the U.S. maintained three times as many long-range bombers as Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Arming to Disarm in the Age of Detente | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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