Word: deployments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later Mitchell will deploy a more powerful explosive device: a mortar containing four rocket grenades that will be fired after Apollo 14 returns home. Together with the shock waves that will be generated in the moon when Antares' abandoned ascent stage and Apollo 14's discarded S-4B rocket hit the lunar surface, tremors from the explosives should give seismologists many more clues to the structure and composition of the moon...
...absolute accuracy in setting the stage. Gamers fight with rule book and tables of fire close at hand. The rules cover four basic elements of battle: movement, missile fire (usually cannon, rifle or arrow), melee (close combat) and morale. Movements, for example, are executed closely to scale; players deploy their soldiers according to careful tape measurement. The result of artillery fire is determined by tables compiled from actual battle experience, and by the toss of dice, to add the element of unpredictability. When plastic soldiers clash hand to hand, another set of rules-plus the dice-decides the kill ratio...
...major problems with which the Harvard police contend are assaults on woman students and thefts in the Houses. This semester, at least two rapes have been reported. In response, the Harvard police have established an extra detail for Radcliffe's Currier House and have gotten the Cambridge police to deploy an extra 5 to 15 men in the general Radcliffe area...
...Army's role in domestic politics. The judge who dismissed the ACLU suit claimed that Army maintenance of files was no different than maintenance of files by a newspaper. Frank Askin, arguing for the plaintiffs, observed that no newspaper also possessed weapons or other means of force to deploy against whoever was on file. The right of the Army to operate data banks for the surveillance of private citizens is a questionable one and ought to be challenged...
...held to be either by the White House or by antiwar leaders. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution simply 'states: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States . . ." The Constitution is silent regarding the President's powers to deploy forces. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the authority "To declare War ... To raise and support Armies ... To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of land and naval forces." There is no reference to congressional participation in the direction of forces being used...