Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a frequent target of student protests because of its role in planning the Indochina war. The institute's JASON summer project did the early planning for what became the Army's "integrated battlefield control system"--the electronic battlefield of sensors, anti-personnel bombs, mines and laser-guided "smart" bombs on which American planners increasingly relied as the war went...
...problem of complicity is raised by Honeywell's appearance today at the OGCP to recruit employees from Harvard. Honeywell produces useful goods like medical supplies and Pentax cameras. Honeywell also produces antipersonnel bombs and components for the electronic battlefield--both of which significantly contributed to the destruction of Indochina...
Honeywell continues to seek and gain arms contracts; new contracts made for 1973 and 1974 included provisions to manufacture delay fuses for Air Force M-117 bombs, the BLU-26/B "guava bomb," the Rockeye bomb, rocket targeting systems, infra-red sensors used in the electronic battlefield, and a "thin wall fragmentation mechanism." Honeywell takes the profits from these contracts, and when challenged on its responsibility for overseas murder, says, as in 1972, "The ultimate decision as to types and quantities of weapons to be available and used must be the responsibility of the Department of Defense." This disclaimer could...
...more than they now have?62 missile-launching submarines and 950 SLBMS. The agreement set no restrictions on the number of warheads that could be placed on each rocket. Nor did it limit bombers, short-and medium-range missiles and tactical nuclear weapons that can be used on the battlefield...
Jakarta, the sprawling capital of Indonesia, looked at times like a battlefield last week. Fires burned all night as angry mobs attacked stores, businesses, hotels and nightclubs, smashing and gutting hundreds of automobiles as they surged through the stricken city. It was the worst rioting that Jakarta had seen since the anti-Communist disturbances of 1967. The occasion for the violence this time, ironically enough, was neither the threat of externally supported subversion nor the advent of civil war; rather, it was the good-will visit of a friendly foreign leader, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka...