Word: armaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does it? The above projects on U.S. foreign policy, on Spanish politics, and on Cuban politics have in fact been supported by the Center for the past year, as have been many others, including radical analyses of peasant movements and of armament reduction...
...Viet Nam has gone on so long" with no clear-cut outcome. "This frustration is why people are hitting out at the nearest hitching post, much as the students strike at the universities when that is really not what they're mad at." The staggering cost of modern armament is a further cause of discontent, Wheeler says. "An ICBM is at least a million dollars a throw; a nuclear carrier, half a billion, an ABM system, $7 billion. And it is all blamed on the military, because at first glance our weapons and our uniforms are easily identified...
Even more unusual are the changes in attitude urged by the new guidelines. "It remains each man's burden in conscience," says one section of the recommendations report, "to decide the rectitude of his country's policies as a world power, or its involvement in the armament race, or its participation in wars against other men. And the decision of his conscience must be made known by every legitimate means, but especially by the exercise of his vote...
...travels in the past have some times presaged Soviet pressures, had been sent to East Berlin this time only in order to keep the East Germans in line. Still, a lingering fear remained among West Germans and West Berliners that the Communists would use their new charge about illegal armament production in the city to selectively harass freight traffic from West Berlin...
...sect promotes its cause-as it does in Japan-with a revivalist fervor that suggests an Oriental version of Moral Re-Armament. Its Youth Division has a flashy fife-and-drum corps replete with majorettes. Its thrice-weekly newspaper, the World Tribune, is filled with ardent testimonials of what conversion has meant. Every member is expected to help expand the rolls by the practice of shakubuku*-proselytizing -wherever he goes. Those who can afford it are urged to make one of the chartered-jet pilgrimages to the head temple of Taisekiji in Japan, which more than 10,000 members visit...