Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guarding the Arsenal. Leopoldville's African quarter has been plagued for days by a wave of raping, looting and shooting. Many of the attacks were the work of gangs of roving civilian bullies. But some of Mobutu's soldiers, sent into the African city to search for arms and political enemies, had roughed up their quarry, had in some instances proved trigger-happy. Already angered by Mobutu's threat to bring an armored unit into Léopoldville to impose his will, Dayal called the bespectacled colonel on the carpet before an array of U.N. brass, issued...
...planned an intensive training program to inject some discipline into its ranks. But the U.N. let him keep his soldiers around Patrice Lumumba's house and at the radio station, and, for some reason, agreed to let Mobutu's soldiers take over guard duty at the national arsenal...
...budget to set up in the missile business-and, in fact, saved the nation's face by launching the first U.S. satellite after Sputnik. But the Defense Department ruled that long-range rocketing was properly the role for the Air Force, and the Army's Redstone Arsenal was turned over to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...came to pay for 272,-710 identical screws. Government purchasing agents agreed to a price of $1 apiece. If ¶The Defense Department sold 488 unused heavy-duty tires as surplus at about $60 apiece, though they had cost the Government $311. A few days later, a Defense Department arsenal bought 20 tires of the same type for $341 each. In another surplus sale, the Government unloaded 369 tires at $266. then bought some more of the same...
...conclusion. During the past 15 months, the U.S. has halted all nuclear tests. Yet the Communists may well be secretly testing, while the U.S. sits patiently at the conference table. The U.S. still has a probable lead in nuclear weapons technology, but the nation's nuclear arsenal can stand plenty of improvement, particularly in the area of cleaner bombs and small tactical weapons. Important programs are needed in the field of miniaturization to develop warheads for the Nike-Zeus antimissile, for the Navy's Polaris and the Air Force's Minuteman ICBMs-all of which means nuclear...