Word: tu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neither the Colorados nor the Blancos, whose platforms as conservative Establishment parties are virtually indistinguishable from each other. The Front was formed by dissidents who feared that President Jorge Pacheco Areco's repressive response to workers' demands and to the activities of the youthful urban terrorists, the Tu-pamaros, would lead to civil war. It is composed of half a dozen small parties, including the Christian Democrats, the Communists and the Socialists, as well as renegades from the Colorados and the Blancos...
Measure of Distrust. The violence quickly escalated. The following night, the popular Tu Do nightclub was blown up with a 15-lb. plastique charge, killing 15 and wounding 57. Though the attack appeared to be the work of Viet Cong terrorists, it was a measure of the distrust in which Thieu is now held that some observers thought that the President might even have engineered that. Their reasoning: any terrorist attack would be blamed on the Viet Cong, thereby strengthening Thieu's anti-Communist stand and silencing such antiwar critics as McGovern...
...first swing-wing supersonic strategic bomber ever produced, Backfire is believed to have been designed by Andrei N. Tupolev, 82, who also developed the Soviet Union's TU-144 supersonic transport. Aerodynamicists believe that the 131-ft.-long, 250,000-lb. Backfire is made of stainless steel with titanium to resist the heat stress of supersonic flight, and has an airframe skin bonding (instead of riveting). The plane's wings are in a forward position for long-range cruising and are jackknifed back about 40° for speeds of Mach 2.1 (about 1,400 m.p.h...
Physicist Seaborg is just back from Russia, where he headed a delegation of ten visiting U.S. scientists. The group, in checking out eleven key Soviet installations,*covered 6,000 miles -all in Premier Aleksei Kosygin's private TU-134 jet. The scientists often stayed up until dawn talking shop with their Soviet counterparts, with Seaborg, as he has throughout his reign as AEC chief, pushing hard for the pooling of information...
Triple Trailers. The same shadow game is played aloft, but there are very special rules. Soviet TU-16 Badger bombers with Egyptian markings fly out of Cairo West airbase to follow the Sixth Fleet and look for Polaris submarines. Whenever they get near the U.S. carriers, a "fastback alert" is sounded, and Phantom jets are catapulted off the carriers to keep the Badgers from getting too close. The Phantoms always approach gradually and at an angle, sometimes drawing abreast of the Soviet planes. On one such occasion, a Phantom pilot was surprised to see his Soviet counterpart hold...