Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Troop infiltration, which has run as high as 17,000 a month in the current dry season, is hardest to detect. Recruits are marched single file along foot trails at intervals of five yards, each wearing camouflage greenery. The trip takes between three and five months with occasional stops in primitive way stations for rest and resupply. The attrition rate due to disease, bombing and desertion runs as high as 15%; yet Hanoi keeps sending replacements...
...Igloo White is an Air Force ground sensor system modeled on the Navy's acoustic submarine detectors. The sensors are dropped during overflights and either catch in tree branches or bury themselves in the ground. Two main types have been used: seismic, which detect ground movements caused by moving trucks and even marching soldiers, and acoustic, which use tiny microphones so sensitive that they can clearly transmit human voices (several conversations have been picked up among Communist troops discussing how to dismantle the sensor). Information from the sensors is relayed by planes to ground-based monitors stationed in South...
...tape. When Dr. J.B. Rhine of Duke University, the noted expert on parapsychology, was asked recently to undertake some research for the Department of Defense, he agreed-but at the same time inquired why an 18-year-old study of his on the training of dogs to detect land mines had never been made public. Apparently, no one had bothered to declassify the material. A more pressing case of bureaucratic ineptitude involves the Atomic Energy Commission, which holds literally thousands of research papers and reports in classified storage. The material cannot be released because the commission cannot hire the personnel...
...Nhan Dan editorial, broadcast from Hanoi, said: "Regarding enemy aircraft-regardless of whether they are reconnaissance aircraft, or fighters, whether they come discretely, in flight formation or in groups, and regardless of whether they come by night or day-we are resolved to implement the slogan, 'Detect the enemy as soon as he comes, annihilate him as soon as he comes, accurately hit his aircraft in the initial burst of gunfire, down enemy aircraft on the spot, and capture aggressor pilots alive...
...manager of the Minute Man Record store disagrees. "Sure, we've got a lot of stealing like anyone else, but there's no percentage in prosecuting the people who steal. We're just trying to educate our employees to teach them to detect shoplifters," he said...