Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists succeed in their aggression," said Thai Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, "we would be the next target. This action is being taken in direct defense of Thailand." Thailand turned a deaf ear to Hanoi's raucous denunciation of this "new and odious act of treason by the reactionary Thailand government clique." After all, about a third of the guerrillas who are operating in its northeast are Vietnamese who have slipped across the Mekong River from Communist redoubts in Laos to join Chinese-trained Thais and some members of the Pathet Lao in spreading terror through the region...
...produced only 37 air-to-air "kills"-27 of them against the enemy. Uninterested in dogfighting, the North Vietnamese prefer to harass U.S. fighter-bombers on their runs over the North, attempting by feints, forays and cannon fire to make the Americans jettison their bombloads short of target or burn extra fuel in evasive maneuvers. Last week the U.S. set an aerial ambush to end that harassment-and in the process chopped Ho Chi Minh's air arm off at the elbow. Final tally: destruction of nine MIGs, representing nearly half of the North's best aircraft...
Other Americans used their missiles to equal effect. Standing off from the Communist cannon fire, they locked on target with radar and sent six more MIGs down in flaming fragments. The entire fight took scarcely 12 minutes-a commentary on the speed of modern warfare-and only one Phantom was damaged (hit by chunks of a disintegrating MIG). When they returned to base, the flyers received well-earned recognition: a third Silver Star for Olds, Distinguished Flying Crosses for the 13 other aviators who had scored...
Thinking Big. Even the small schools are thinking big. California's six Claremont Colleges, with just 4,100 students, have a 1972 target of $86 million, and $35 million is already in hand. Williams last October completed one drive with $17.6 million, now hopes to reach $25.4 million by 1970. Connecticut's Wesleyan University, although blessed with an impressive $150 million endowment, is pursuing $38 million for expansion...
...thus confirmed unofficial reports in Cambridge earlier this year that the complex could not be finished until late 1971 or 1972. The first target date...