Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staff of eight full-time workers, farms out individual prisoners to Amnesty's 430 volunteer groups in 20 countries. Last week he was in the U.S. to drum up support for the 21st group, which has just been set up in Manhattan. Local chapters use every imaginable publicity weapon to dramatize the cases of their "adopted prisoners" -letters to newspapers, fund-raising campaign parties, appeals to embassies, cables to chiefs of state, massive mailings to the prisoners themselves...
Terrorism still remains the Communists' deadly alternative weapon. Last week a dozen Viet Cong attacked the guard post of a U.S. officers' billet, the Hotel Victoria, in suburban Saigon. Machine-gunning down the guards, they set off a Claymore-type mine, then backed a Citroën delivery truck loaded with 500 Ibs. of plastique explosive up to the gate and blew the Victoria's ground-floor front wide open. Three Americans and three Vietnamese were killed, 113 Americans and twelve Vietnamese wounded. Only the week before, a barrier of drums filled with concrete had been removed...
...have increased so much in recent years-New England Telephone Co. estimates up to 1,500 a month are made in its area-that A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel has called for a crackdown, and individual Bell companies are now declaring statewide "wars on obscene calls." Their most effective weapon is an electronic device known as "called-party holding," which the telephone company hooks up free. It consists of a small signal box that is linked to the nearest central office. By simply pushing the button on the box, the victim signals the central office, which immediately locks the circuit...
...easy faith to define or defend, and the early church, struggling to rid itself of heresy, turned to an intellectual weapon already forged and near at hand: the metaphysical language of Greece. The alliance of Biblical faith and Hellenic reason culminated in the Middle Ages. Although they acknowledged that God was ultimately unknowable, the medieval scholastics devoted page after learned page of their summas to discussions of the divine attributes?his omnipotence, immutability, perfection, eternity. Although infinitely above men, God was seen as the apex of a great pyramid of being that extended downward to the tiniest stone, the ultimate...
...into the craggy depths of a 3,000-ft. undersea valley in which the midget submarines could not maneuver. With that consideration in mind, Rear Admiral William S. Guest, 52, commander of the 15-vessel Task Force 65, put into action Plan Charlie to recover the unarmed 20-megaton weapon...