Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...flew off to California to announce that he intends to win its 45 electoral votes, the largest bloc among the 50 states. He was encouraged by his pollster, Pat Caddell, who found in his California surveys that Reagan's support was soft. The latest studies by Independent Mervin Field gave the Republican a ten-point lead. Reagan, who has won four prima ries and two general elections in the state, professes not to be worried. Scoffs Aide Spencer: "They're trying a little psychological warfare...
...generating plant at Tarapur, near Bombay, provided that it was used only for peaceful purposes. In 1974 India exploded a nuclear device underground; the New Delhi government insisted that it was not trying to develop a weapon but only experimenting to see how explosions could be used "in the field of mining and earth-moving operations." Skeptical international experts noted that the technology involved in such explosions was the same as that used to make atomic bombs. India convinced U.S. officials that the fuel for the device came from a reactor built with Canadian assistance and had nothing...
...first fought in modern times around the gulf, began in the air early Monday morning. From airfields deep in Iraq, Saddam sent his warplanes to strike Iranian military bases, including Mehrabad airport only four miles west of Tehran; Mehrabad serves as a military field as well as Iran's principal commercial airport. The Iraqi objective was straight from the military textbooks: to knock out the Iranian air force before it could ever get off the ground. The effort failed. Scarcely two hours after the attack, U.S.-made Iranian Phantoms were streaking toward two Iraqi bases in the Basra area...
...Journalists Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss in their new novel The Spike. The plan itself, according to U.S. intelligence experts, is all too factual. "Disinformation" refers mostly to covert falsification tactics used by the Soviet Union to further its propaganda aims. Examples of disinformation-a forged U.S. Army field manual, bogus vice-presidential statements critical of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat-occasionally surface in the Western press...
...cake for 12,000 who gathered in Boston Common for the conclusion of the city's five-month Jubilee 350 celebration. Naturally the goodies were scaled to suit the town's venerability: a 2,000-lb. creamy fudge sundae and a 14-ft. by 6-ft. field of butter-creamed pound cake adorned with a 5-ft. marzipan replica of historic Faneuil Hall. The cake, a six-month construction project for Entenmann's Bakery and a local architectural firm, was surrounded, of course, by 350 candles. Kevin White, 51, mayor of Boston for what seems like most...