Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought terrorism to the U.S.: gunmen tried to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950, and in 1954 shot up the House of Representatives.* The F.A.L.N. first appeared in August 1974, when it claimed responsibility for a bombing in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. The group has operated from deep underground from the start, frustrating FBI attempts at infiltration. As one FBI agent observes, "If you can't get in when they are still talking, you're out of business...
Judged trustworthy because of his family connections, he was admitted to an underground group, sent to Cuba to learn guerrilla tactics, then ordered to organize a six-member cell. Among other jobs, he was involved in the murder of an informer and an attempt to spring a fellow terrorist out of an Old San Juan jail...
...Humes's biography reads like the resume of a dabbling jack-of-all-trades. After completing at Harvard an undergraduate education that began at MIT, Humes threw himself into literary pursuits. He co-founded the literary magazine Paris Review in 1953 and later wrote two novels, The Underground City (1957), which was based on the French Resistance movement of World War II, and Men Die (1959), a fictional examination of the psychology of nuclear warfare. Humes taught a creative writing course for one semester at Harvard in 1958 before his career took a turn to the scientific. Humes founded...
...research on a satellite killer to counter Soviet advances in that sphere (see following story). The mobile missile, called M-X (for "missile experimental"), would replace the Minuteman in a decade; by then the Soviets would presumably have the means to wipe out the Minuteman's fixed underground silos. The MX, at a total cost of at least $40 billion, could be moved rapidly along tracks ten to twelve miles long to escape detection and attack...
...project as amended would include nine generators with an expected total capacity of more than 74,000 kilowatts, and underground fuel storage tanks with a capacity of more than one mission gallons...