Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...swept into Prague airport. The Soviets are working on an anti-satellite that can examine U.S. spies-in-the-sky and knock them down. They are putting into service a Mach 3 twin-finned MIG-23, primarily a bomber killer, and are developing three classes of quieter and faster attack submarines whose mission will be to seek out and destroy submarines. Also under development: a second-generation "coasting" or "loitering" ABM, which would linger in the anticipated flight path of an incoming enemy missile and pounce on it from above...
Died. Héctor Garcia Godoy, 49, Dominican diplomat and politician, a candidate for President in the May 16 elections in his troubled Caribbean nation; of a heart attack; in Santo Domingo. A moderate leftist, Garcia Godoy rose to prominence in 1965 as provisional President following a bitter civil war and subsequent U.S. military occupation. Though received with suspicion by both the right and the left, he proved an able conciliator and for ten months kept the country together until it was possible to hold free elections...
Died. Stanley Benham, 56, U.S. bobsledder who won world renown in one of the swiftest and most dangerous of winter sports; of a heart attack; in Miami. Benham represented the U.S. in international competition for 13 years, winning world championships in a four-man sled in 1949 and 1950, and silver medals for the two-and four-man events at the 1952 Olympics...
Thereafter Stander did not play in another American film until 1963, when Director Tony Richardson wangled him a part in The Loved One. He had a massive heart attack that same year, but it has not slowed him down. "I think my troubles are finally over," he says. "Just in case they ain't, I'm living it up as much...
With noise pollution under attack across the U.S., it hardly seems a propitious time to produce noisemakers. Yet a few manufacturers are doing just that. Silence, they say, is often a bigger nuisance than noise. Too much of it creates uneasiness, is distracting and reduces work output...