Word: deployment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Commons, Opposition Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home sharply pointed up the schizophrenia of Wilson's position: "If ownership of nuclear weapons is a sin, we do not gain absolution by appointing a master sinner to deploy the weapons for us, or by joining a syndicate which deals in these weapons." Home added that with "eight or nine fingers on the safety catch, the force would be almost totally incredible as a deterrent...
...paper, the evening News Call Bulletin, is a blend of unprofitable competitors. Despite its monopoly of the afternoon field, the News Call Bulletin has slipped in circulation until it is not appreciably larger than the Pacific Coast Edition of the Wall Street Journal. Nevertheless, Editor Thomas Eastham plans to deploy a convention force of 25-some 18 more than the Examiner-by drafting his TV critic, a reporter whose normal assignment is the Parks and Recreation Department, and anyone else at hand...
Even as the U.S. began to deploy Atlas, it pushed on to develop Titan, which could carry a heavier warhead. Yet U.S. intelligence painted a frightening picture of Soviet missile capability. Defense Department experts predicted that the U.S.S.R. could have some 400 long-range missiles by mid-1963, while the U.S. would have only about half that number. This was the so-called "missile gap," which became a 1960 presidential campaign issue. To help plug the anticipated gap, the U.S. deployed 1,500-mile Thor and Jupiter missiles in Europe, then gambled heavily on Polaris and Minuteman. Since their solid...
...such sweat, Adams has built STRIKE in 21 years into a 225,000-man force that can speedily deploy eight Army divisions and more than 50 TAC air squadrons to any spot in the world...
Paris Match, the French picture magazine, chartered a Caravelle jet to fly 55 staffers and a photo processing lab to the Holy Land. RAI, Italy's government-owned broadcasting system, borrowed an L.S.T. from the Italian Navy, debarked 35 vehicles and 245 men. Tiny Lebanon managed to deploy a journalistic force of 60. Even Tass, the Russian news service, and the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, put correspondents on the scene. All told, some 1,200 newsmen from 34 countries converged on the first papal visit to the Holy Land. Inevitably, the press and its photographers made much...