Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicholas lavarone sought out Bobby Lowe and got him to cooperate on the case. But when Lowe learned the reputation of the accused man, he started to back out. His parents and his wife urged him not to testify. Then his brother, who had been shot in a gas station holdup and later was helped by a witness who agreed to testify for him, told Lowe to "think for yourself, be your own man." Lowe finally agreed to be a prosecution witness...
Illinois bureau of investigation agents placed Lowe and his family in protective custody. Despite his stringent objections, Lowe had to leave his apartment and quit his job as a $300-a-week gas station manager. The Lowes were put under 24-hour guard at several "safe houses" in nearby states. During the four months before the trial, he and his family lived on an allowance of $250 a month. The strain began to tell on Lowe. He had trouble eating and sleeping, he fought with his wife. For his safety, the state financed a $1,600, three-week trip through...
Vance's tactics apparently have had some success. But SALT "breakthroughs" have been heralded before, only to come to naught. Indeed, as he was about to depart for Moscow, a sour Gromyko cautioned that his discussions with Vance were "just a station along the way ... major and serious difficulties remain." Some of these difficulties will be attacked this week as Warnke and Semyonov resume their talks. The toughest issues will undoubtedly require higher-level bargaining; thus Vance and Gromyko plan to meet again, on a yet undetermined date...
...time is long ago and far, far away. The beautiful Princess Leia, a leader of the rebellion against the evil Galactic Empire, has just been captured by an imperial starship. She is now aboard the Empire's mobile command station, the impregnable Death Star, able to destroy whole planets with a single energy burst, and at this very moment she is being interrogated by Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and the Grand Moff Tarkin-probably the nastiest pair of villains in the thousand worlds. What, they want to know, has she done with the stolen secret plans...
...world. Mounted on one wall are half a dozen computer-fed display screens (each 6 ft. by 8 ft.), which flash the status of U.S. forces. Last week, at the press of a button, the screens gave this picture of some of the U.S. strategic strength on station: 1,054 nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles, most of them sited in concrete-reinforced underground silos scattered across the Great Plains; 21 nuclear-powered submarines gliding stealthily through the world's oceans, their 336 slender missiles within range of Soviet targets; 90 B-52 bombers ready to take...