Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several thousand feet above a bleak patch of western Utah, a 20-ft. long, cigar-shaped drone dropped from a B-52 bomber, spread its stubby wings and began whipping around an oval course 100 miles long and 30 miles wide at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. So last Tuesday began the great flyoff to pick the first U.S. air-launched cruise missile (ALCM), a weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead some 1,350 nautical miles and delivering it on target with near pinpoint accuracy. The weapon is designed to boost the nation's atomic punch...
...tests strapped to a B-52 to enable the missile's guidance system to fly the bomber. Each model will also have ten freeflight tests. Some will be like last week's exercise, while others will follow a zigzag course from the Pacific back to the Utah range. Should an ALCM go astray, an F-4 Phantom jet flying along would take over its guidance system...
...they are not large or accessible enough to justify expensive exploitation by the Government. But some 76 billion bbl. in oil, about three times the nation's proven reserves of conventional crude, are known to be recoverable from the shale rock concentrated in western Colorado and stretching into Utah and Wyoming. No plants are in operation at present, but at least five companies are running experimental digs in the area. To produce a barrel of oil, about 1½ tons of rock must be mined and heated. So far, the process requires huge amounts of water -scarce...
Bundy owned a Volkswagen, and he took it with him when he transferred in 1974 to the University of Utah law school. The Washington killings stopped, and a similar series soon began in Utah. But the police had little to connect Bundy with any of them until the summer of 1975, when he was arrested and later charged with kidnaping Carol DaRonch, 17, from a shopping center in the Salt Lake City area. Bundy was convicted and sentenced to one to 15 years in prison...
...Bundy is acquitted, however, he will hardly be a free man. Along with the Colorado murder charge and his original prison sentence in Utah, he faces 67 felony counts in Florida for stolen credit cards, forgery and auto theft-and a murder charge in yet another case, the sex slaying of a twelve-year-old girl in Lake City, Fla.,in1978...