Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles from its launch site. Brown flew out to New Mexico's Tularosa Basin for a highly publicized demonstration of the U.S. Navy's sleek Tomahawk cruise missile. As big jack rabbits nibbled unconcernedly at the sagebrush in the blazing morning sun, a camouflage-painted, torpedo-shaped object whistled barely 100 ft. above the White Sands Missile Range at 500 m.p.h., headed dead on target. Brown listened to the whine of its turbofan for a few seconds, then put down his binoculars and turned to reporters near him, the first press group to witness the highly advanced missile...
...charred remains of buildings burned during the riots of 1976. Presumably, the tourists also note such sights as unemployed blacks drinking at Soweto's government-sponsored beer halls, or youths-rebellious dropouts from inadequate, segregated schools-furtively passing marijuana joints back and forth on dusty street corners. The object of the tours is to show foreigners that Soweto is "peaceful" again, following the epochal riots that began there two years ago, spread to other townships and eventually killed 618 people. Last week TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter paid an anniversary visit to Soweto, which has become a symbol...
Which makes the second test the crucial one. In it, a driver tries to swing a car around an obstacle, then pull back into lane-supposedly simulating the maneuvers a motorist would have to make to avoid a child suddenly darting into the road, say, or an object falling off a truck. When C.U. drivers tried it, the car fishtailed alarmingly and failed to recover. When Chrysler re-created the test for an audience of reporters at its proving grounds in Chelsea, Mich., the company's driver threaded the car flawlessly through a slalom course around pylons...
Other African countries, notably Nigeria and Tanzania, are also cool to the proposal. They object to the interventionism of former colonial powers, and they argue that any military force should be tied to the Organization of African Unity. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, who has welcomed several of the Carter Administration's previous initiatives on Africa, accused Carter last week of listening to "hysterical voices" in his Government who were exaggerating the current Soviet-Cuban activity on the continent...
...uprooted, even if the transfer means higher rank and salary. Merrill Lynch Relocation Management, Inc., which specializes in moving executives, estimates that 200,000 to 300,000 of them will be asked by their employers this year to move to new locations and one-third to one-half will object; only a decade ago, the refusal rate was no more than 10%. Says James E. Wall, vice president of Celanese Corp.: "The balance has definitely shifted away from saluting the company and marching off to Timbuctu toward a greater emphasis on family and life-style...