Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border to identify and track incoming ICBMs. The radar sites will send information back to missile-site radar (MSR) equipment at 14 or so areas where long-range Spartan missiles will be poised to intercept enemy vehicles as much as 400 miles from their targets. Each Spartan battery will protect an elliptical area of the nation-in Pentagonese, a "footprint." Present plans call for batteries in each of the overlapping footprints, others in Alaska and Hawaii...
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...
...bodies, stripped and sometimes skinned, dangling from lampposts and trees or rotting in the gutters. Such tortures as gouging out eyes and cutting off ears are supposedly commonplace. Prisoners have been released from jail to roam the city, shooting and pillaging. Ordinary Cantonese have formed vigilante committees to protect their neighborhoods, and pillboxes and gun emplacements are being built on street corners. In an attempt to quell the anarchy, Peking is reported to have sent 100,000 People's Liberation Army troops into Canton, but the story that comes out is that they soon were at war with anti...
Last week, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford & Co. got their anti-ballistic-missile system. In the midst of an otherwise eloquent address on the danger of a new arms race. Defense Secretary McNamara announced that the U.S. would begin to deploy a $5 million "thin" system principally to protect our Minuteman ICBM silos...
...approached a policeman and said, "There's a little boy who looks hurt pretty bad lying back there. Can you come back and take a look?" The officer replied, "That's not my responsibility. I have to stay right here." "But aren't you supposed to protect people as well as beat them up?" the man shouted. The policeman replied calmly, "Look, buddy, I am protecting people; now get out of here...