Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working majority in Congress. Moreover, Bobby is likely to remain in the headlines by campaigning in perhaps a score of states (Humphrey plans to stump 38, Johnson all 50) for such fellow Democrats as Michigan's G. Mennen Williams and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. A major target may be California, where Governor Pat Brown is in a neck-and-neck race. "I hope he comes," said Brown's opponent, G.O.P. Candidate Ronald Reagan, last week. "It would be interesting to have this citizen of Massachusetts, who serves as the Senator from New York, explain...
Incidents of terrorism have risen steadily in number and violence since 1960 and have also undergone discernible changes in emphasis and targets. Beginning in 1964, the Viet Cong became far less discriminate in their mayhem, far more ready to kill for killing's sake. And since last year, policemen have been a special target for the Red assassination squads-a tribute paid to the growing expertise of the nation's "white mice" in catching the terrorist before he strikes...
...Oswald was not really a very good marksman, yet his shooting on that day would have required remarkable skill: two direct hits on a moving target in less than six seconds with a rifle that had a defective scope. In the Marines, he scored only one point above the lowest ranking in one competition. When expert riflemen test-fired the weapon later, none could match Oswald's speed and accuracy...
...bridled at his application of the term salvage to people. Some Negro leaders, noting that one-third of the low aptitude trainees would be Negroes, cried that he was out "to exterminate us" by qualifying more Negroes for service in Viet Nam. Most of this criticism was far off target, but it did help raise the fundamental question of whether the Defense Department should be an engine of social progress through education...
...Them Eat Kaoliang!" By 1946, Lin's tactical target was the northeast of China, where the Japanese had built up a thriving industrial base during World War II. The Russians, who had pounced like vultures at war's end, were busily dismantling the best of the Japanese factories when Lin and his 150,000 men arrived, but Lin sent cadres into the countryside with the order: "Take off your leather shoes, lay down your office bags, put on the clothes of the peasants, and eat kaoliang [the coarse sorghum of Manchuria]." The lessons of Yenan were being applied...