Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over foreign aid, Johnson asked for only $3.4 billion, the smallest request since the U.S. began pumping Marshall Plan aid into Europe in 1948. Of that total, $1.2 billion went under the Defense budget, thereby trimming the vulnerable economic aid request to $2.2 billion and giving Congress a smaller target...
Even if these are the figures Goldwater has in mind, the Pentagon insists, he is telling only part of the story. Because of the "mix" of the total ∙ U.S. nuclear force and the multiple-teaming of strategic objectives by "cross-targeting," SAC Commander Thomas Power says, he is certain that 90% of the targets would get plastered by U.S. missiles. The mix of which Power talks includes 554 ICBMs, 176 submarine-launched Polaris Al and A2 solid-fueled missiles (90% reliable in tests), 630 B-52 bombers and 720 B-47s. In "cross-targeting," as many as six missiles...
...Chargé d'Affaires Frederick Picard quickly evacuated the Project Mercury Space Tracking Station outside Zanzibar Town and sent dozens of official personnel and dependents off to Tanganyika on a U.S. destroyer. But four American newsmen (including TIME'S William Smith) arrived in Zanzibar to provide a target for the government's wrath. The reporters sailed in on an Arab dhow and began asking questions. Karume, who wanted no visitors, had them placed under house arrest in the Zanzibar Hotel. When Picard intervened, Karume stormed into the hotel lounge and exploded. "Why are you interfering...
Home-town officiating helped Cornell play on even terms with the Crimson for most of the game. As usual, Gene Kinasewich was the chief target of the referees' whistles and the fans' abuse, as he received eight minutes in penalties and was pelted with litter while in the penalty...
Birmingham. It was while he was in his post-Albany eclipse that King began planning for his most massive assault on the barricades of segregation. The target: Birmingham, citadel of blind, diehard segregation. King's lieutenant, Wyatt Tee Walker, has explained the theory that governs King's planning: "We've got to have a crisis to bargain with. To take a moderate approach, hoping to get white help, doesn't work...