Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like last year's Tet offensive, the present Communist attacks are clearly designed to embarrass the U.S. forces-which have been the target of most of these assaults-cause heavy casualties and demonstrate that the Communists can still stage dramatic attacks on the big cities of South Viet Nam. Ho Chi Minh thereby hopes to test the mettle of the young Nixon Administration by rekindling dissatisfaction with the war in the U.S., and to strengthen his bargaining hand in Paris. As the attacks continued on the President's return from his European tour, the country waited...
...might be situated, there have been angry citizens' meetings and demonstrations that the Pentagon's representatives have been unable to mollify. The protesters resent such use of desirable sites, fear that the missiles might be unsafe and, furthermore, insist that their presence would make the host community a special target for the enemy in the event...
Zeus, however, was merely "a bullet that could stop a bullet," whereas the anticipated threat was a shotgun blast of many projectiles aimed at the U.S. With limited range, relatively low speed and me chanically operated radars that could handle only one target at a time, Zeus offered only "terminal defense" ? protection
...least two years before models are operational. The main innovation is that each missile will be able to carry several separate nuclear warheads-as many as ten in the submarine-borne version, and three in the land-based model. Each warhead will be assigned to a different target. Thus, MIRV would increase the nuclear punch severalfold without escalating the number of delivery missiles...
...companies. Like bonds, which they resemble, the debentures offer a fixed rate of return in interest. Usually the principal is repayable 25 years later, in two installments. Under that arrangement, recipients of debentures qualify for the so-called installment-sale tax provisions. If they swap shares in a target company for the conglomerate's deben tures, they pay no capital-gains tax on the deal until they get their money back in 25 years. Debentures are doubly attractive because they are generally convertible into common stock at an above-the-market price. For the companies that issue them, debentures offer...