Word: rand
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...looking elsewhere for targets. In the case of the Achille Lauro, for example, it appears that the hijackers chose the cruise liner because the usual avenues of access to Israel--by land and air--have been blocked by Israeli security measures. There is also what Brian Jenkins, a Rand Corp. terrorist expert, describes as a kind of novelty factor. Says Jenkins: "If you want to stay in the headlines and exercise coercive power over governments, you have to do novel things...
...ballistic-missile throw weight, while the U.S. has a mere 2 million kilograms. The Soviet proposal offered last week would reduce the Kremlin's throw weight to no more than 3 million kilograms, according to an analysis for TIME by Ted Warner, an arms-control expert at the Rand Corp...
...book's preface does not note the CIA funding, but does acknowledge financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rand Corporation...
Samore, who now lives in California, said he was only aware that the Rand Corporation, a California think-tank, had provided money for the book...
Samore said that when he began working on the book around 1980, the Rand Corporation provided his salary. Subsequently, Samore said, he entered a Harvard graduate program, where he worked as a research assistant on the book for Safran and was paid out of Harvard coffers...