Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been to discontinue further development of manned bombers, such as the controversial RS-70. Instead, enormous amounts of money are being spent to beef up the Minuteman batteries and nuclear submarine-launched missiles, among them Poseidon, which will double the megatonnage of Polaris. In Omaha, the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff coordinates the targets at which missiles, landlocked and at sea, are aimed. Mostly they are pointed at critical bull's-eyes in Red China and Russia...
...just about every important phase of the department's work. Civil rights litigation will move apace, though Katzenbach thinks that the days of violent confrontations-and the use of federal troops to enforce the law-are over. Similarly, labor racketeering, a prime Kennedy target, will continue to get Katzenbach's attention; the new Attorney General will retain the so-called "Hoffa Unit," the anti-labor-racketeering section that was set up in the department under Bobby. Katzenbach feels that antitrust work has been too scattershot in the past, hopes to sharpen the focus of trustbusting onto areas that...
...military equipment; 4) large-sca'e procurement of the controversial swept-wing F-lll (formerly TFX) fighterbombers. In purposely vague terms Johnson also forecast "remarkable new payloads for strategic missiles," including more effective devices to penetrate enemy defenses "and methods of reporting the arrival of our missiles on target...
...professional iconoclast. Muggeridge is never happier than when assaulting the Establishment - any Establishment. "A royal soap opera," was his considered judgment, in the Saturday Evening Post, of Britain's royal family. Last week, in the lively New York Review of Books, Critic Muggeridge opened fire on a transatlantic target: the John F. Kennedy legend...
Died. William Buckingham, 62, research engineer for Western Union Telegraph Co., who in 1961 developed the U.S. Nuclear Bomb Warning System, which is installed in 99 target areas and will, through supersensitive photoelectric devices, instantly pick up the first heat and light waves from a nuclear explosion, thus alerting military commanders moments before it and all other communication systems are knocked out; of cancer; in Southampton...