Word: armaments
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...publisher of Scientific American charged that one-quarter of our industrial output is dumped into "the sink of armament," not because of true military but because it serves the same economic function of pump-priming as does government investment--"to certify additional workers with paychecks" to consume surplus production, without itself adding to the over-abundance of goods...
...somehow, our excess nuclear armament has failed to promote stability in world politics. The Soviet Union called off the moratorium on nuclear testing last year, and reversed the hopeful downward trend in its military expenditures. When disarmament talks resumed at Geneva this year, the Russians proved to be more than ever obsessively concerned with their geographical security aid resistant to early inspection...
...colonel of Peru's army stood before an electric loudspeaker and pointed it at the palace where his President lives. "We demand immediate surrender," he yelled. "Avoid unnecessary bloodshed. We have enough armament here to blow down the entire palace." No reply came from the grey granite building. One of 30 tanks out front gunned its engine, rammed through the black wrought-iron gates. A few minutes later, a tired, slightly bowed man was escorted from the palace, plunked into a station wagon, and packed off to an island prison aboard a troopship...
Kennedy supported the administration position on armament. "The only way to achieve Mr. Hughes' goals is to negogiate from a position of strength." He argued. The President's decision to resume nuclear testing was made only after consulting all opinions and great study and soul-searching, the younger Kennedy claimed, and should be supported as the best informed decision possible...
Died. Vice Admiral James Harmon Thach Jr., U.S.N. (ret.), 61, chief of staff to NATO's Atlantic Fleet (1955-57), a dry-witted gunnery officer who was one of the first to develop rocket armament for the navy, brother of Vice Admiral John Smith ("Jimmy") Thach, 57, chief of the Pacific Fleet's Anti-Submarine Warfare Force; of cancer; in Old Lyme, Conn...