Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli P.O.W.s, mostly downed pilots, held by the Arabs. In money terms, Israel estimated that the war cost it only $100 million, against $2 billion for the Arabs. The Israelis captured several times their own outlay's worth of Arab equipment. Included in the haul are two Soviet SAM missiles and their sites, more than 200 Russian tanks in mint condition, and uncounted thousands of weapons and vehicles-all abandoned by fleeing troops...
...will be a long time calculating the price in Arab morale, to say nothing of Russia's tremendous loss of face as it stood helplessly by, watching its expensive Middle Eastern adventure being ground to dust by the advancing Israelis. Among the major Israeli spoils were several captured Russian SAM missiles...
...publishers. Except for the fact that both went to Harvard, they have virtually nothing in common. The Post-Dispatch's Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 54, grandson of the founder, is urbane, aristocratic, international-minded and remote. Globe Publisher Richard H. Amberg, 55, who was brought in from Syracuse by Sam Newhouse when he bought the paper in 1955, is hard driving, domineering, locally oriented and a joiner. He is reputed, in fact, to have joined more civic organizations than any other publisher in the U.S., and he is constantly supporting local causes in his paper. "He gets into every nook...
...that poured 95% of the country's cement. The showpiece Thai Nguyen steel plant has been bombed 13 times. To defend the heartland as best he can, Ho has emplaced in it some 5,000 of his total 7,000 antiaircraft guns and about 20 of his 25 SAM battalions, each of which operates six missile launchers. The result is layered flak and missiles from the deck all the way to the stratosphere that have brought down 541 U.S. planes...
...shelters are being built in the cities, and antiaircraft batteries are reportedly going up in the countryside. To be certain the people keep the faith, Kim's government stages regular political-indoctrination classes at factories, offices, schools and neighborhood meeting halls; militia groups practice bayoneting replicas of Uncle Sam. Kim is also careful that his people hear nothing of the economic and political progress of the South or of the great upheaval of the cultural revolution in Red China, which might send ripples through his own country. It is a measure of the success of Kim's censorship...