Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff are unanimous in favoring its full deployment. Secretary McNamara, on the other hand, has steadfastly balked at the more than $30 billion that the antiballistic missile system would cost. He has claimed in the past that the program would not be effective without a shelter program to accompany it, and that, in any case, every $5 billion spent on a defensive program by either the U.S. or Russia could be canceled out by the expenditure of only $1 billion in added offensive weapons. Lately McNamara has been mum about Nike-X in deference to a pending...
...experts are somewhat mystified by the new spurt of Russian missile activity, particularly since there has been no sign that the Soviets have embarked on a comprehensive shelter program to go with it. As some in the Pentagon see it, the Russians may be trying to put economic pressure on the U.S., figuring that their expenditures would be well worth it if they lead the U.S. to budget $30 billion or so on top of the rising expenses of the Viet Nam war. While the Russians obviously consider the U.S. their chief threat now, it may turn out that they...
...principal fact of the Delta is water, water everywhere: drowning the great, flat expanses of paddyfields that reach to the horizon, running in brown, lazy fingers through 2,500 miles of navigable canals, tributaries and the Mekong itself. Only long, lush tree lines and the populous villages they shelter break the landscape's monotony, and it is in the tree lines and villages that the Viet Cong are most often found...
...There were a wave of assaults and robberies" during the disturbance, DeGuglielmo said. "Several places of business had their merchandise destroyed to the extent of several hundred dollars each. Mothers with children were driven to an hysterical state and sought refuge and shelter in business establishments," he added...
...Jordan in the past year, climaxed by a land-mine explosion that killed three Israeli troops on Nov. 12. "It is regrettable," said Eshkol, "that this particular act of aggression came from Jordan." But since it did, he picked Jordan as his target. "No country where the saboteurs find shelter and through whose territory they pass on their way to Israel can be exempt from responsibility...