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...through the DMZ barbed wire and mines unnoticed but, en route on their four-day march to Seoul, they made the mistake of asking a woodcutter about the capital's security checkpoints. He notified the police, who began to set up road and street blocks to intercept the assassins. Even so, they got within several hundred yards of the Blue House before police sighted and challenged them. A brief battle ensued, in which a policeman and a guerrilla were killed, and one young guerrilla, Lieut. Shin Jo Kim, was captured. The rest of the North Koreans escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: A New Belligerence | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...program is now rolling well in 220 trucks, specially equipped to carry the freeze-dried smallpox vaccine and keep diluent solutions refrigerated. Inoculating people who live in towns and villages is relatively easy. Far tougher is trapping the nomads who wander across the map. To intercept them, the epidemiologists plot their seasonal visits to water holes and waylay them there. Timbuktu, the Sahara's ancient crossroads for commerce, is now a prime hunting ground for vaccinators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: 100 Million Vaccinations | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...Interception Path. During its third orbit, the S-IVB refired its engine, increasing its speed to nearly 23,400 m.p.h. and thrusting farther away from the earth. After the S-IVB was separated and the Apollo service-module engine fired briefly, placing Apollo into an orbit with an apogee of 11,200 miles and a perigee of negative 50 miles-meaning that the craft's path would intercept the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Moonward Bound | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...missile from the moment of blast-off at Russia's Tyuratam ICBM complex; the new radar will be fully operational in February and will give Washington 30 minutes' warning of a potential attack. The new three-stage Spartan anti-ballistic missile will also increase U.S. ability to intercept any incoming missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Space Bomb | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

Each site will also have batteries of short-range Sprint missiles, designed to intercept, at ranges of up to 25 miles, any ICBMs that escape the clouds of X rays and neutrons laid down by the Spartans. In addition, five or six independent Sprint batteries will be deployed to protect the long-range radar sites and Minutemen in the U.S. Northwest. Though the number has not yet been determined, each Spartan site may have as many as 50 missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Missing Card | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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