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...ready, the Air Force must depend upon its manned thermonuclear bombers reinforced by its only near-operational intercontinental guided missile, the Northrop Snark, an air-breathing, star-guided, 600-m.p.h. missile that can take a hydrogen warhead 5,000 miles to target or deploy electronic countermeasures over an enemy heartland to lure defenders away from main bomber strikes elsewhere...
...preserve the deterrent military-political power that has kept the cold war cold, built a military foundation for West European prosperity. The new threat: Sputnik and the Soviet experimental intercontinental ballistic missile. The new military response: deployment of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in closeup NATO bases around the Russian heartland...
...civilians) designed ) fire the Strategic Air Command's first ready-for-action intercontinental guided missile, Snark. Next month the Air Force ill also start building the U.S.'s Snark ase at Presque Isle, Me. From there nark will be able to reach almost all worthwhile targets in heartland Russia...
...maintain civil liberty and democracy," he cried. Retorted a government spokesman: "The concern of the leader of the opposition merely betrays his guilty conscience because he was and has been the leader of those who perpetrated atrocities in Ashanti"-the wealthy (cocoa and gold) territory that is the heartland of Nkrumah's opposition. "Let me tell the House this bill is being introduced purposely because of the Ashanti," blurted another government spokesman...
Premier M'bida, a devout Roman Catholic whose forehead is studded with blue tribal tattoos, journeyed recently into the heartland of the 120,000-member Bassa tribe, center of the spreading rebel movement. At Rebel Leader Um Myobe's birthplace, the Premier appealed to the natives: "Do not live like the Pygmies!" He urged them to come back to civilization, gave them ten days to come out of the jungle or be treated as rebels. By regrouping huts near roads, where they can be guarded, he hopes to maintain order, proceed with the slow evolution toward real...