Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commander in Chief, Jimmy Carter has plunged underwater on a nuclear attack submarine, climbed into the sky in an E-4A Airborne Command Post and descended underground to inspect Strategic Air Command headquarters. Last week the President renewed his military travels by helicoptering with his wife Rosalynn from Savannah, Ga., to the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower to view a series of combat exercises...
...clouds "the clear invulnerability of our strategic deterrent," said the President, he will not hesitate to order "fullscale deployment and development" of an advanced Trident II submarine-launched missile and the M-X missile system. The M-X would make land-based ICBMS elusive targets by moving them through underground tunnels...
...organizations-Saudi Arabia alone contributed $26 million last year-their motives are at least as much anti-Israeli as pro-Palestinian. Indeed, the P.L.O. cause was probably strongest in the Arab world after the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Arab armies had been roundly defeated and the underground Palestinians emerged as the most heroic and effective anti-Israel group around. But the Arab dislike of Palestinians arises largely from the fact that under the British, who ruled Palestine through a League of Nations mandate for 30 years after World War I, they became the best-educated people...
...P.L.O. is not much closer now to any sort of productive settlement. According to Beirut sources, the P.L.O. leadership last week decided to return to underground warfare against Israel. The Palestinians even announced that they were resurrecting Black September, the dread group named after the month in 1970 when King Hussein brutally kicked Palestinian commandos out of Jordan. In the past, Black September has carried out assassinations of other Arabs as well as American diplomats. If the group seriously returns, it would mark a black day. for both the world and the Palestinians...
...route covers mountainous regions where there have been earthquakes, and broad areas of permafrost and innumerable bogs where the ground heaves during the short summer thaw; pressure tests of the Siberian soil are conducted at an underground Permafrost Institute at Yakutsk. Some 3,700 bridges and culverts must be built across rivers and streams. Subway experts from Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev have helped drill tunnels (one of them 9.5 miles long) through seven mountain ranges...