Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision was brought into question when it became clear that the more people held onto each other, the higher the number of casualties. In the end they decided that locking elbows was simply provoking the Marshals and that they should "go limp" as soon as they became the next target...
Planned Parenthood is another favorite target. "They have tried to stop me every inch of the way; they tell the poor to come to them; I go to the poor. They help only married people and they don't have the guts to challenge the unjust laws in this state. They're not helping me because they are a big corporate concern and they had a monopoly on birth control matters until I entered the picture...
...pack a 4,000-round-per-minute machine gun, a grenade launcher and 76 air-to-ground 2.75-in. rockets. Faster and deadlier than any other helicopter in use in Viet Nam, the Cobra is also far safer for pilots. For Viet Cong gunners it is a tough target indeed; it has been slimmed down to a svelte 36 in. (v. 100 in. in the old Huey gunships) by seating the pilot and copilot one behind the other instead of side by side as in most other helicopters. The Cobras saw combat for the first time last week when...
...hydraulic lift system can completely change the tank's posture. From its top height of 87 in., it can hunker down on its tracks 19 in. to become a less inviting target; it can independently move its front, back or either of its sides to maneuver or to level itself on broken terrain. Its crew sits in air-conditioned comfort beneath a perch with 360° vision. It is at least two years from becoming operational, and it is clearly meant for a different kind of war than Viet Nam: it can withstand contamination from atomic, bacteriological or chemical...
Daniel J. Hayes Jr., the Mayor of Cambridge, is up for re-election to the City Council next month. Facing a tough fight, the good Mayor three weeks ago launched a verbal fusillade at the nearest vulnerable and harmless target, the city's hippie population. It may prove successful politics, but now he is threatening to turn his useless diatribe against long hair into a more perilous experiment in illegal harassment...