Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helicopter cabin, Lieut. Frank Powell, chief of Philadelphia's bomb- disposal unit, hefted a canvas satchel holding two 1-lb. tubes filled with a water-based gel explosive. After lighting its 45-sec. fuse, Powell leaned out of the helicopter bay and dropped the device on the roof. His target: a fortified, bunker-like cubicle about 6 ft. square and 8 ft. high...
This season the National League champion San Diego Padres have lost Second Baseman Alan Wiggins to a drug-care unit for the second time in three years. His relapse was particularly pathetic because the Padres embraced Wiggins in the manner of a loving family standing by a troublesome son. They avoided being judgmental, and Owner Joan Kroc visited him at the detoxification center. "I will never give up on any human being as long as they are breathing," she says, but the club has suspended Wiggins for the rest of the season. After his treatment settled a 1982 cocaine possession...
...making them a magnet for antinuclear demonstrators and a target for terrorists. (The weapons' nuclear warheads are housed separately in concrete bunkers with special security precautions.) The Army wants the money for "metal and concrete fences, which are intended to shield the day-to-day activities of the Pershing unit from outside observation." The proposal is finding a receptive audience in Congress. "No problem at all," said Republican Senator Mack Mattingly of Georgia, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on military construction. "In fact, it's not enough money. On an issue of this importance, we want more than the minimum...
...feelings of shock and revulsion linger 40 years after Ronald Reagan's California Air Corps unit assembled film of Holocaust victims for the general staff in Washington...
...hospital from downtown Louisville, where he was attending a conference on heart replacement, but he arrived too late: Burcham had already stopped breathing and had no blood pressure. "I was there for about 15 minutes, 20 minutes," DeVries said, "before we turned the key (to the Jarvik-7 power unit...