Word: target
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...even that faint feedback carries a definite message. If the signals bounce back polarized-in other words, with their electric fields reversed-they indicate rough terrain. Unpolarized echoes, on the other hand, mean smooth surfaces. In either case, the target areas are pinpointed by a system of coordinates similar to latitude and longitude. One coordinate is located simply by clocking the signal: the quicker it bounces back, the closer the bounce-back point is to that part of Venus nearest to Earth...
...repeatedly with a Polish diplomat who shuttled between Hanoi and Saigon. Shrouded plans (code-named "Marigold" by the State Department) were laid for a U.S.-North Vietnamese meeting in Warsaw on Dec. 6. Two weeks before, however, the White House had approved a bombing list including previously off-limits targets in Hanoi. Because of rain and high winds the strikes did not actually take place until Dec. 2 and 4. Why the bad timing? Only a bare handful of men in Washington were aware of both Marigold and the earlier target authorizations. Some simply forgot about the raids...
...Communists' target was the Royal Thai Air Force Base at Udorn, one of five Thai fields from which U.S. fighter-bombers fly daily strikes into North Viet Nam and Communist-held parts of Laos. Udorn, only a few miles from the Mekong River border with Laos, has a complement of 6,000 American airmen, two fighter-bomber squadrons and two tactical reconnaissance squadrons. Like the other Thai bases, it was considered a safe haven; as one U.S. serviceman put it not long ago: "It's a big thing when you don't have...
...million cocktail"-a concoction of rum, triple sec and cane sugar. But publicity and propaganda do not grow sugar cane, and most experts doubt that Castro can deliver on his promise. After a prolonged drought, this year's crop is at least 3.5 million tons below his target...
Edsel Margin III, one of the three commissioners, is, like Karl Shapiro, apocalyptic and apoplectic, but he has a well-defined target: Benjamin Spock -not the war hater, but the baby lover. Margin creatively misinterprets Dr. Spock's book Baby and Child Care as a blueprint for totally permissive child-rearing, a Communist Manifesto of the U.S. infantocracy, the cause of all the troubles from Yalta to the Yippies...