Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swing the Maddox broadside and train one forward pair and the aft pair on the two boats or stay on course and keep the ship's tail toward them. This would permit him to fire at only one boat at a time, but it would provide a slimmer target for enemy torpedoes...
...loss in property damage; two Negroes shot; 46 people injured, 22 of them police; 65 people arrested, mostly Negroes. Said Jersey City's Mayor Thomas J. Whelan, a man who hitherto had been highly regarded by civil rights leaders but who now suddenly became a target of criticism: "I came from a marginal family. I was one of 13 children. I know what it's like to try to do homework with seven kids around the table in a cold kitchen. I know what it's like to compete against people with better education. But being poor...
...along with a blow against the north, such an action would be precise and designed to minimize the possibility of further escalation. To discourage further subversion in the south, the first steps would probably be air strikes against Viet Cong supply lines in the Laotian corridor. Most likely target: the big staging center of Tchepone, which has an airfield. The purpose would be to put Hanoi on notice that the U.S. was ready to do more if necessary. If that didn't work, the next step would be bombings inside North Viet Nam. First would come...
...stiffen the spine of the demoralized Congolese national army, which has been totally unable to quell Communist-encouraged tribal revolts in the eastern Congo. All it really takes to win a town is a long-distance telephone call. Usually when a rebel leader rings up his next target, the Congolese army contingent on hand flees before the rebels arrive...
...college administrators have yet heard of the tests to make the idea an open target for criticism. Some teachers are sure to say that construing education so narrowly as a matter of credits is to miss the point of the college experience. But the new test is only part of the continuing process of defining the line between colleges and ever-better high schools, and major curriculum changes are bound to take place. Some colleges will drop certain courses because they will find that freshmen are showing significantly higher levels of preparation than had been realized. Others will put more...