Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summoned Budget Director Charles L. Schultze for a White House conference-the 29th since June-and ordered him to launch a "more rigorous and searching quest for savings" among Government agencies and to be "even tougher than usual" with requests for new or expanded programs. The Administration's target: cuts of between $6 billion and $9 billion from the total requested by nondefense agencies for next year. The President has also instructed all Government agencies to apply Pentagon-style "cost-effectiveness" techniques to find "the most effective and least costly" alternatives for achieving Administration goals...
...SUBROC. The underwater version of ASROC is launched from a submarine, shoots into the air, dives back into the water to streak toward a target...
Despite some fancy feints and jabs, it was hard to tell whether Lyndon's left hand was landing on target or merely shadowboxing. According to a British white paper on Viet Nam, the U.S. is thinking of another, "more prolonged" pause in its bombing of North Viet Nam in exchange for an "appropriate and commensurate" military move by Hanoi, such as recalling its 9,000-man regular infantry division, which is deployed in South Viet Nam. It was unclear just how the U.S. could verify such a withdrawal, if it took place, or how the Reds could be kept...
...Hanoi, the U.S. does not know how many SAM units there are in North Viet Nam, for as quickly as they fire, the mobile installations lumber off on their trucks and trailers to new locations. But as of last week, they have become the highest priority on the U.S. target list, if only they can be found...
...eight days in orbit -and made it. Early this week Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad maneuvered their spacecraft back into the earth's atmosphere over California. Minutes later, at precisely 8:55:58 a.m. (EDT) on Sunday, they splashed down in the Atlantic about 90 miles short of target, soon were picked up by helicopter and lifted to the carrier Lake Champlain. Safe and smiling, they seemed in perfect shape...