Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Push & Pull. They were always in the street. When Sukarno, ignoring the rising national clamor to ban the P.K.I., appointed several Communist sympathizers to his Cabinet in February, the students swarmed through Djakarta, rioting, slashing car tires, and even storming Sukarno's Merdeka Palace. A special target of their ire: wily Foreign Minister Subandrio, who was widely believed to be implicated in the Communist coup...
...attack bases in Thailand, Major General Gilbert L. Meyers, Saigon-headquartered vice-commander of the U.S. Seventh Air Force, showed up personally in the briefing rooms. "We've got one of those targets we've been waiting for," he lectured before a wall map of Hanoi. "Now let's do a good job on it, and we may get the other targets we want. I want all bombs in the target at all costs...
...flak let up until the attackers ducked behind a mountain ridge on the way home-after running a 60-mile flak alley leading away from the capital. Over Haiphong, shrugged Navy Commander Albert Schaufelberger, 39, a burly Detroiter who was the first pilot to release his bombs on target, defenders put up "moderate to heavy flak-you get subjective when you describe...
...measure, King Hussein of Jordan is a moderate Arab monarch: antiCommunist, pro-Western, and opposed to throwing anything more threatening than verbal brickbats at Israel. Jordan has the longest and most vulnerable border with Israel of any of the Arab nations, is the first target of the Israelis' periodic retaliatory raids to Arab terrorist bombings...
...Main target of Jomo's wrath was not Odinga but rather Bildad Kaggia, the lone Kikuyu in the KPU's Luo-dominated upper ranks. Kaggia, roared Kenyatta, was a captive of the Communists, a liar, a cheat and a lover of "black necks"-a derogatory Kikuyu reference to the darker-skinned Luo. Moreover, suggested Jomo in the ultimate Kikuyu insult, he suspected that Kaggia was not even circumcised. Kaggia was crushed by an 18,000-vote KANU plurality...