Word: target
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...concern over crime and violence. Actually, there has been something of a depolarization over the racial issue, at least among many Northern and Southern whites. The Southerners have tended to become less conservative, the Northerners less liberal. Further, middle-road Republicans like Nixon discovered big, centralized government as a target long before Wallace arose as a threat and Southern Republicanism as a lure. It is still an attractive mark to those in all regions who view the Federal Government as an inefficient leviathan. That this position also appeals to the old states'rights sentiment, the resistance to change imposed...
...when it was announced that Poseidon had sped to a perfect splashdown, 1,150 miles away down the Atlantic missile range. Then came the taller, three-stage Minuteman III. Launched at 4:30 p.m. in a geyser of orange flame, it raced 5,000 miles to another brilliant on-target splashdown near Ascension Island in the South Atlantic...
...COMBAT considers as its 'target areas' the Old Left and the New Left; the rebellious student groups; the peaceniks and the draft-card burners; leftward-drifting churchmen; the 'marchers'; the hippies; sections of the communications media." William F. Buckley Jr., suave guardian of what's Right in America, sounded uncommonly exercised in his communique drumming up $24-a-year subscriptions for his new newsletter, COMBAT. The twice-a-month publication will tackle the task of diagnosing "the extent to which America's current sickness is the result of organized infection...
...schoolteacher widely respected for his political acumen and his honesty. Huong moved into the Prime Minister's office at No. 7 Thong Nhut (Unity Street) eleven weeks ago, with the warning that corruption, a problem frequently discussed but little acted on in the past, would be a major target of his administration. "What I want to do is eradicate the big fish," he says...
Last week, when remnants of the Soviets' Cosmos 61 shot whirled out of space, NORAD's cameras, radar network and computer banks watched the descending debris until it was finally incinerated in the atmosphere. Other eyes also followed its fiery fall. Using NORAD data dubbed TIP (for Target Impact Point), Herbert E. Roth, a Denver-based jet-training planner for United Air Lines, operates a unique one-man satellite-early-warning system. It alerts commercial airline pilots to the possibility of space debris hurtling across their flight paths...