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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Life would be tough under the Kremlin. At the same time, it's rough under the Pentagon. Even worse under vast stockpiles of germ warfare, atomic and hydrogen weaponry. Odds for survival are likely as good or better if we keep only police, national-coastguard and disarm unilaterally. If pushed out of some markets by Soviets, we probably can make that up by billions saved on the defense establishment. If U.S. must have a nuclear unbrella, use that of Britain and France. Henry Ratliff July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

Casino employees assumed that the containers held a new photocopying machine until someone read a three-page typewritten letter on top that said the big box contained a powerful bomb. The message demanded $3 million and a getaway helicopter in return for instructions on how to disarm the bomb and warned that any attempt to move or tinker with the box would automatically detonate it. The letter was signed: HAPPY LANDING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bringing Down the House | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Douglas County Sheriff Jerry Maple decided that there was no choice but to try to disarm the bomb. Though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had offered to lend a robot with mechanical claw and television-camera eye, the authorities relied instead on a local firefighter, who attached a small explosive device to the bomb, which was supposed to either destroy the control box or detonate the crate's contents. At 3:42 p.m., authorities crossed their fingers and set off the small explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bringing Down the House | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...auxiliaries alleged to be misbehaving into those camps. We have joint planning groups going through selection and demobilization of the people in the camps. Another group is examining ways to get the external guerrilla forces back into the country and dealing with questions like whether or not to disarm them before they return. We are also looking into ways of making it attractive for some to go back to "civvie street" be cause there is no way a country of this size can absorb all of its present security forces country all of the present guerrilla forces inside and outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Walls: We Will Make It Work | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...contract work in a pool on Universal's back lot eating an ersatz fisherman whenever a tour train went by. Now Bruce is in front of the cameras again in the upcoming spook spoof The Nude Bomb. Don Adams, a.k.a. Maxwell Smart, tries in his klutzy way to disarm a KAOS bomb that disintegrates clothing and leaves people naked. Adams and Villain Vittorio Gassman fall into Universal's Jaws pond at one point, and Bruce tries unsuccessfully to eat them. Fangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1980 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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