Word: target
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Asia could be substantially reduced over the next few years. Here Nixon's goals abroad dovetail with his attempt at home to check federal spending. The Pentagon is seeking ways to reduce the overall size of the armed services. Large overseas ground forces seem the likeliest target for either disbandment or withdrawal to bases like Hawaii...
...moon remains a continuing challenge. Only hours after Columbia and her crewmen were plucked of the Pacific, U.S. space officials an that Apollo 12 will lift off Cape Kennedy on November 14. Its target: the Ocean of Storms, several miles northeast of Apollo 11 's Tranquillity Base...
Erie's littoral U.S. cities. Washington has asked industry to spend another $285 million on waste-treatment equipment. But schedules are being met by only 15 of the 102 target cities and 32 of the 100 major industrial polluters. The trouble is that pollution rarely gets a high priority until profits are affected or people are killed...
...objects of Suenens' complaints ranged from the repressive measures employed against modern Catholic theologians to the church's attitude toward women. But his prime target was Vatican bureaucracy. The Pope is indeed head of the universal church, Suenens affirmed, but he is also the prisoner of a curial system that makes him more an emperor than a successor of Peter. Most contemporary church problems, the cardinal suggested, stem from the legalistic mentality of the cardinals and other functionaries who surround the Pope-men who refuse to recognize that bishops, priests and laity must also participate in the governing...
...organizing a network of students to a force that would decisively help unseat the President and carve a niche in history for Eugene McCarthy. In cities a continent apart, two maimed minds were moving nearer their appointments with infamy. And in Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was making himself a target for protest by ordering his police, eleven days after Martin Luther King's assassination, to "shoot to kill" arsonists in time of riot...