Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proceeding apace. The Chinese, who claim to have invented the rocket 700 years ago, already have short-and medium-range (1,500 miles) missiles perfected, and this year are expected to begin building emplacements for the MRBMs along China's coast, thus bringing a large part of Asia within the arc of their nuclear capability. One of the countries sure to be pinpointed on Chinese plotting maps is Japan, which, ironically, continues to supply Chinese buyers with the sophisticated technology that Peking needs for missilery, as in the recent sale of a vacuum furnace and rolling mill for titanium...
Oscar Handlin, in a report issued by a committee of moderate criminologists, indicates that he turned down an offer to become police chief of Boston. "I didn't want to get involved," he declares, CBS news announces that Boston is missing. The White House says that Southeast Asia will be the 50th, not the 51st state, since Louisiana is being toweed out to sea and sunk. Local commentors blame Garrison's "sewer-side tendencies...
...gained in part through his own participation in at least one of each of the 30 types of missions, from reconnaissance to rescue operations, that are flown over North Viet Nam. He has also made it a point to fly in every kind of U.S. aircraft in use in Asia, from little Cessna spotter planes to the fleet F-4 fighter-bomber. Only Momyer himself can call off a search-and-rescue effort for a downed U.S. pilot, and he refuses to leave his combat center until he has made that grim decision, even if it means pacing the floor...
...glass face of the map. On each is charted in grease pencil the flight path of the attackers, any weather changes, and encounters with MIGs or missiles. If he wants to alter something, Momyer can be in touch within 60 seconds with any pilot flying anywhere in Southeast Asia...
...give his slow story some contrapuntal rhythm and social significance, Lelouch cuts from shots of the triangle (filmed in Technicolor), to monochromatic scenes of conflict in Africa and Asia, presumably covered by the hero. The vulgar-cliche style of these sequences can only be described in Nabokov's term, "poshlost." The reporter self-righteously editorializes: "The Nazis tortured because of a guilty conscience from oppressing Europe during the war . . . In Viet Nam, the U.S. is in the same situation ..." Meanwhile the horrors of battle are shown in pictures as stilted as window displays, the blood stylistically spattered...