Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jumping the gun by a year, Republican candidates from Kentucky to New Jersey proclaimed that the pivotal issue in last week's statewide elections would be President Johnson's waning popularity. As it turned out, the voters were concerned with local questions-notably taxes, education and racial controversies-more than Administration policies, domestic or foreign...
...sheaf of Johnson's key measures are moribund for this year at least-highway beautification, gun controls, aid to elementary and secondary education and, most significantly, the President's proposal for a 10% income tax surcharge...
...good solid weapons system that we think will serve us well in Viet Nam," says Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly. "In a conventional war, there are always targets, like gun emplacements on a hillside, that can't be hit by radar. The only way to hit them is by eyeballing them first." Since most of the Navy's and Air Force's operational jets were designed primarily for quick hit-run attacks in a nuclear war, they have neither the fuel capacity to loiter long over targets nor the armor plating to withstand ground fire...
Between firefights, with her Uzi submachine gun cuddled in one hand, she was frequently taking a moment to apply a dab of "moisturizing cream" to her sunburned face or trying to comb out her tangled braids. And with good cause. Accompanying her through most of the campaign was Colonel Dov Sion, 46, an aide to Sharon. A month after war's end, the colonel and the correspondent were married...
...Bring A Gun...