Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tactical' air power and rockets, those forces designated to attack the enemy's military forces up to roughly a 1,000-mile range from the starting borders, would similarly engage in mutual nuclear strikes. But here the Soviets do not see a mutual stalemate. The heart of such a capability is the ground forces-trained for nuclear war, armed with nuclear weapons-and here the war would begin with a serious imbalance: a preponderance of Soviet forces...
...military purpose is to "deter and defeat attack." Russian military objectives are shaped by a fundamental objective: "To advance the power of the Soviet Union in whatever ways are most expedient so long as the survival of the Soviet power itself is not endangered...
Another difference is in civil defense. The U.S. has.not even got around to thinking seriously about a nuclear shelter program. Garthoff is convinced that the Russians are taking the far more radical step of decentralizing their industry to minimize damage of nuclear attack. He thinks Khrushchev's program of industrial management decentralization is accompanied by physical decentralization for military purposes...
Yarborough's haymakers last week rained down in a crowd-pleasing attack on Blakley's bulging money belt. Blakley, charged Yarborough, is spending $60,000 a day on the campaign, which has been enlivened by barbecues, hillbilly bands and beauty queens. "Seats are bought on the New York Stock Exchange." Yarborough told a statewide television audience. "Now we see an effort to buy one of Texas' seats in the Senate." Noting that Blakley is the largest single stockholder of Braniff Airways, Yarborough told Texas peanut growers: "He has stated that he is opposed to federal subsidies...
...Eastern organized labor. He dared Liberal Yarborough, who straddles the race issue, to get off the fence. "I challenge him," said Blakley in a resonant drawl, "to deny that funds for his past and present campaigns come from the same source as the funds which financed the attack on our public school system by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...