Word: projected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demanding the termination of seven war-related projects at M.I.T.- the Cambridge Project, the Com-Com Project, the International Communism Project, and research on the ABM, MIRV, the Moving Target Indicator radar system, and a stabilization system for helicopters...
Four of the projects deal with applied weapons research-the Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vchicle (MIRV), the ABM, the Moving Target Indicator, and the Helicopter Project. MIRV is an attempt to develop a first-strike nuclear capability. The U.S. could use the threat of this capability to aid its foreign policy. Both MIRV and ABM are enormous subsidies to the defense industries, and as such point to the distorted priorities of American corporate capitalism...
Speaking about the planned SDS demonstration against the Brooks Committee, Cheyney C. Ryan 69, co-chairman of SDS, said the action was planned to "expose the fact that the Ford Corporation has set up this Faculty committee to approve the project, and to put forward our demand that Cambridge Project should be abolished...
...Welfare Island new-town project, with its emphasis on relatively low buildings, its extensive parklands, its constraints on automobile use, and its considerable freedom for the pedestrian, represents the kind of venture that might save New York City. But why should such techniques be employed only in "new" towns and not in the old ones where most Americans live? Mayor Lindsay should now think about giving the pedestrians of New York more room and the drivers less, about turning clogged streets into park-lined walk ways open at certain hours to commercial and emergency auto traffic...
...project which the NAC is demanding be shut down are the Cambridge Project, the Com-Com Project, and the International Communism Project, at the CIS; research on MIRV and on a stabilization system for helicopters, at the Instrumentation Labs; and work on the ABM and the Moving Target Indicator radar system, at the Lincoln...