Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Violence for the Vietnamese therefore was not illogical. But neither did it have an all-consuming logic of its own: it was one of many weapons in the revolutionary arsenal, to be used when needed and cast aside when it no longer advanced them toward their objectives. The struggle proceeded simultaneously on several fronts and the various thrusts complemented each other. Political and social reforms followed liberation troops into liberated areas. Soldiers were not centurions, but bearers of a new way of life...
Doctor. By this time the street outside, Broadway, was turning into a battlefield. Police extinguished the street lamps, halted traffic and elevated trains running overhead. The four gunmen, reinforced by an arsenal of rifles, shotguns and pistols, fired freely at the moving shapes in the darkness. One patrolman, Stephen Gilroy, 29, leaned cautiously forward from behind a steel girder; an instant later he was shot in the head and fell dead...
...unacceptable to Protestant militants, such as the Ulster Defense Association, that they will surge into the streets for a showdown with British authority -and, if that happens, how British forces will react to the challenge. The U.D.A., which claims a membership of 54,000 and has a growing arsenal of weapons, could pose a bigger threat than the I.R.A...
With targets that close to populous or off-limit areas, like hospitals, and with more than 1,400 sorties being flown in the first week alone of the two-week operation by virtually every kind of Air Force and Navy plane in the Indochina arsenal in every kind of weather and through the densest aerial defenses in the world, mistakes were inevitable. Particularly with the massive (100 a day) use of B-52s-each group of three lays its bombs in a row of "boxes" a mile and a half long by half a mile wide-civilian casualties were inescapable...
...press, its stabs ranging from acerbic critiques by the Vice president to a Supreme Court decision which forces newsmen to disclose their sources. Last month, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the President's office of Telecommunications Policy, announced that the Administration hopes to introduce a new weapon to its arsenal the regulation of network programming through affiliate stations. In the proposed legislation, local stations will be held responsible at license renewal time for the "taste and balance" of network news and entertainment programming. The passage of this legislation would give Nixon an indirect power of censorship over the national networks...