Word: protectable
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Cruel Irony. The ABM Sentinel system is a "thin shield" designed to protect U.S. cities from Red Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles. Incoming warheads would be intercepted by Spartan missiles outside the earth's atmosphere. If any got through, back-up Sprint missiles would be launched to catch them seconds before they reached their target. The Pentagon contends that the resulting blast would be negligible, but radioactive fallout would be a danger. Critics argue that the Chinese will still not be a serious threat in the 1970s and that the $5 billion Sentinel network is the first step toward...
Pentagon experts argue that the ABM bases have to be located near the major cities that in most cases they are designed to protect. Curiously, however, the projected ABM site closest to Washington is near New York City, 225 miles from the nation's capital...
...reasserted the triumph of their risen Lord through a successful church bakery sale; or, inevitably, the distraught but delighted graduating high school class. All smiling, self-conscious, vacuous. Or are they really vacuous? Just what am I allowed to see behind the conventional stance and posture with which they protect themselves from the photographer...
Today, in Vietnam, the United States seeks to achieve by negotiations what it has been unable to achieve by military force--the continued freedom of Americans to exploit the third world. It is to protect these freedoms that the U.S. has set up military dictatorships in Thailand, the Congo, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala, Iran, etc.; it is to protect these freedoms that the U.S. has razed whole villages (Ben Suc) and almost totally destroyed major cities (Ben Tre--a city of 35,000--was 85 per cent destroyed by U.S. bombing during the Tet offensive. Globe, 2/8/68). There is no just...
What all this means is obvious--the Army is totally committed to ROTC and feels it absolutely essential that ROTC be maintained where it is and expand where it can. This is primarily due to the ever increasing need to deploy the Army around the world to protect US interests, but is also in part the result of an ever growing awareness on the part of Americans as to the function of the US military, an awareness that has causes ROTC enrollment to drop...