Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role of Boston-area companies in developing the "automated battlefield" in Southeast Asia was the focus of a teach-in last night sponsored by the Non-Violent Direct Action Group. NDAG, which has organized civil disobedience against local draft boards and army bases, announced a winter "consciousness raising" campaign against these companies...
Scientists from Boston-area companies and universities took the initiative in proposing the automated battlefield to the Defense Department, Bill Hazeltine, NDAG member said...
Hazeltine, who has researched Defense Department contracts to Boston companies, traced the development of a "university military-industrial complex" involved in strategic weapons system. then counter-insurgency, and most recently in the electronic battlefield. Hazeltine cited contracts to local companies for such devices as antipersonnel bombs, an airborne sensor system for night target surveillance, an armed reconnaissance scout vehicle, and a tactical communications satellite...
...next two months. The President noted that the infiltration rate is lower than usual at the moment. He added: "We want to see, however, what the situation is in December and January, because that will determine what the activity will be in April, May, June and July on the battlefield...
Died. John Mecklin, 53, journalist; of cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. A cum laude graduate of the Ernie Pyle school, Mecklin began covering the world's wars in 1942 as a correspondent for the United Press in the Mediterranean theater. Then, broadening his scope, he cabled his battlefield and political reports to TIME from Indochina and the Middle East. Mecklin's service as U.S. Public Affairs Officer chief in Saigon from 1962 to 1964 provided the background for his book, Mission in Torment, a widely praised account of the Viet Nam conflict's early years. Later, he became...