Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entirely possible too that Park flared up in anger and even tried to beat down Kim. Somebody then squeezed the trigger. We know that to the last moment of his life, Park remained adamant and aloof...
...targets in the U.S. first became vulnerable to Soviet ICBMS, the threat of massive nuclear retaliation lost some of its credibility, and thus some of its ability to deter Soviet aggression. Would U.S. leaders really defend Western Europe by launching a nuclear strike against the U.S.S.R. if that could trigger a devastating Soviet counterstrike at New York or Los Angeles? The question echoes more loudly now that the U.S. no longer boasts strategic superiority. As Kissinger put it in Brussels, "It is absurd to base the strategy of the West on the credibility of the threat of mutual suicide." With...
About three months ago he discovered that two proteins of the virus bind to the host cell's DNA and determine the cell's growth pattern. One protein activates the genes that trigger destructive growth, while the other, the repressor protein counteracts the growth...
...supporters at home and abroad, the U.S. Senate seemed to edge closer to approval of the pact last week despite the setback caused by the uproar over the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. That issue was somewhat defused when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Frank Church, who had helped trigger the crisis, introduced a mild resolution that he had worked out in advance with the White House. He proposed that before SALT can be approved, "the President shall affirm that. . . Soviet military forces in Cuba are not engaged in a combat role and will not become a threat...
...Social Security records; of heart and kidney failure; in Bartow, Fla. Smith claimed that he was born in Liberia, was lured onto a slave ship in 1854 and sold to a Texas rancher named Charlie Smith. Freed under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Smith said he became known as "Trigger," a gun-slinging acquaintance of Billy the Kid and Jesse James. The spry, loquacious centenarian recounted tales that jibed with historical documents. One secret of his longevity: "I never drink green [plain] milk...