Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plans-E.W.P.s-designed to meet every calculated contingency to be put into immediate operation. SAC flashes its orders-"PLAN BLANK"-to any or all of some 70 SAC bases worldwide. At the bases the alert crews scramble and head off with a roar toward target-via a Fail Safe point that varies with every mission...
...today's kind of instant warfare, SAC will know long before the alert crews get to the Fail Safe point whether the attack upon the West is real or just a commonplace false alarm. Chances are overwhelming that the alert airplanes will be recalled long before they get to Fail Safe point...
Should they get to Fail Safe point without getting coded follow-up orders to proceed, they must automatically turn around and head home. Should they get the order to go on-e.g., "Implement Plan Red Fox Eight"-they must still check the order with base command; they must go through several cross checks on message and frequency to ensure against decoy; they must get yet another confirmatory order to proceed. In a normal tactical situation, the only man who can give the final order to attack is the President of the U.S., who relays it to General Power...
...actual practice-contrary to United Press President Frank Bartholomew's report* on an imaginary SAC flight that the Kremlin was waving around as the basis for its propaganda onslaught-SAC planes have never reached their Fail Safe points in an emergency scramble caused by unidentifiable radar blips, let alone flown beyond Fail Safe points. This is the basis of the U.S.'s denial of the U.S.S.R.'s charges. But SAC constantly scrambles on real and test alerts; so realistic are SAC scrambles that SAC crews always head out toward Fail Safe point not knowing whether their mission...
...their hour of triumph. Nationalists tried to placate the English-speaking South Africans. Advised the Nationalist Transvaler: "Don't feel bad about the election . . . Leave your valley of mistrust and suspicion. The Nationalist Party has shown that language and culture rights-and money-of both sections are safe in its care." Added Strijdom: "Formidable and manifold problems are facing South Africa, and some of them can only be solved if cooperation between the two main language groups is strengthened...