Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bombs on Target...
Last week the main target was a restaurant and nightclub owned by Charles Lebedin. Demonstrators rushed into his place, urinated on the floors when he locked the rest rooms. Other Negroes surged screaming through a motel. During the week 300 people were jailed, a dozen were injured. Mayor Allen hoped to head off worse violence. Said he: "Atlanta will accept no ultimatums and bows to no threats. At the same time, it will not lag in its efforts to ensure all of its citizens their full rights of citizenship...
...almost as if the cartoonists had been waiting for an excuse to sight in once more on a familiar target. No sooner did Charles de Gaulle announce his decision to recognize Red China than the pen-and-ink brigade moved to the attack. The long, lugubrious face, with its dark, pouched eyes glowering past the promontory of a nose, was riddled with caricature. A buzzing gadfly, a silly rake wooing an Oriental tart, a kook cutting loose a dangerous dragon-De Gaulle was peppered from all sides...
Anarchy's Victory. The first mutiny erupted in Tanganyika's capital of Dar es Salaam, and gunfire rattled through that humid "Haven of Peace" for the first time since German gunboats held target practice there during World War I, when Tanganyika was part of German East Africa. Before it died away, at least 20 Tanganyikans were dead, whole blocks of the Arab and Indian quarters lay in ruins, and President Julius Nyerere's government-once considered East Africa's most stable-had been seriously discountenanced. The mutiny was made possible by Nyerere's decision...
...Florida last week, so many fishermen were chasing bonefish that some guides were booked solid, seven days a week clear up to April-at $50 a crack. Yet a less spectacular target for such frenzied attack could hardly be imagined. The bonefish looks a little like a herring; in fact, it is a kind of herring-long, scaly cigar-shaped body and all. It does not pursue its food like a proper game fish but grubs around the shallows, gulping down evil-smelling worms and other tidbits. People who have sampled its flesh discreetly describe it as "gamy," and even...