Word: targeted
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...North, while it cannot alone prove decisive, is putting so great a strain on Hanoi that before long a major break will ensue. Last spring, U.S. Air Force Lieut. General William ("Spike") Momyer, commander of the bombing war in Viet Nam, devised a tactic known as "pursuit-of-a-target system" that puts relentless pressure on the North's transportation network. Instead of blasting a road or bridge and then leaving it alone for a while, the system calls for flyers to make continuous "multiple cuts" in roads and rail lines, trapping trains and trucks between the gaps...
...place, wait until it was repaired and then hit it again. Trouble was that the North Vietnamese became too fast and facile at fixing things up, and transportation continued to move, at least sporadically. Since last spring, the U.S. has used a strategy known as "pursuit-of-a-target system." Now, U.S. flyers seek to make a whole series of cuts in roads and rail lines in a steady round of attacks, thus trapping trains and truck convoys between the cuts and making them easy targets. Pilots have noticed in recent weeks that fire from antiaircraft batteries and SAM missile...
...other prisoner who made news was Andreas Papandreou, leftist son of former Premier George Papandreou. The real target of the initial roundup, he is charged with conspiracy to commit treason. A pair of self-proclaimed "secret witnesses" in the Andreas case have now surfaced in the U.S., courtesy of Ramparts magazine, which, after the usual spate of advance publicity, published their story that agents of the KIP (the Greek CIA) coerced them into giving false testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens...
Father Drinan saw race discrimination in North Carolina's relaxation of its abortion law because, he said, it was mainly aimed at reducing the Negro birth rate. But the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr. (TIME cover, Aug. 11) saw the poor as the target and suggested that some states might make abortion easier to reduce the wel fare rolls. Young complained that the poor were discriminated against in that they could not obtain costly but safe abortions in the U.S. or travel abroad for them as can the well...
...days leading up to the in evitable strike, the auto industry seemed to have only business-as-usual on its mind. The Ford Motor Co., which United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther had singled out as his initial strike target, was showing no interest in round-the-clock bargaining. At General Motors, where the threat of a strike was not so immediate, officials cheerfully predicted 1968-model sales of over 9,000,000 cars, up from an estimated 8,600,000 during the current model year. And throughout the industry, automakers went about introducing their new models (see following story...