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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interception between 25 and 40 miles from its launch site, relying primarily on the blast and heat effects of its own detonation to incapacitate the aggressor weapon's innards. As with the Spartan, its purpose is not to blow up the opposing RV (reentry vehicle)?which would dump much lethal fallout on the territory below?but to detonate close enough to defuse the warhead. Sprint's own bang, however, would cause a degree of radioactivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ABM: A NUCLEAR WATERSHED | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Infantry on Guard. Danang, the country's second largest city and the coastal hub of northernmost I Corps, suffered greater damage. Rockets and mortar rounds poured into the city as well as into surrounding military installations. Chain explosions rocked an ammunition dump, setting huge fires raging and pumping black smoke high into the sky. A Marine hangar at the airfield was damaged. Incoming rounds hit a bare 200 yards from the headquarters of the Third Marine Amphibious Force, damaging the naval support headquarters just across the Danang River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A GRIM REMINDER THAT THE WAR GOES ON | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...pals during his earlier days as a young street brawler, a rifleman in Indo-China and a merchant sailor. For Stevan, it was an amusing existence, but it came to an abrupt end last fall. In early October, a ragpicker found his sackcloth-swathed corpse in a garbage dump at Elancourt, near Versailles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Bodyguard | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Quakers were rated the prime contender to dump perennial champion Columbia until last week when Princeton gained a last-minute victory over Penn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swordsmen Face Penn Tomorrow | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

...Dump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Johnson Aide To Teach Presidency Course | 2/11/1969 | See Source »

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