Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iraq, whose classic and convulsive revolution, to say nothing of her geography, offered a made-in-heaven target for the new Soviet tactics, has moved progressively away from Communist influence...
South Viet Nam is clearly the target of a new Communist offensive in South east Asia. President Ngo Dinh Diem has doughtily faced crises before. Bolstered by $1 billion in U.S. aid, Diem courageously saved a nation that had been written off by the experts when it was created in 1955. He smashed the "armies" of the militant religious sects, welcomed and resettled nearly a million refugees who had fled Communist North Viet Nam, embarked on ambitious projects in road building, railways, land reform and agricultural credit. A start has been made in safeguarding the peasants by moving them from...
...base structure to see how it met the rapidly changing combination of military need and politics. The bases are indeed outgrowing the original military needs that spawned them. Many were built to bring the U.S.'s short-legged B-47 jet medium bombers within striking distances of Soviet targets and to provide for quick interception of Soviet bomber attacks. Prudently recognizing the danger of a military strategy that depends on bases in foreign hands, Pentagon planners rushed the development of military hardware that had the range to strike from home bases in the U.S. The Air Force moved...
...Bullets. For fast-draw target practice for policemen or gun buffs, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. is introducing a wax bullet in a plastic cartridge case that can be fired from .38-cal. and .45-cal. standard revolvers. The bullets use a chemical primer but no powder, are "reasonably accurate" at 25 ft., can inflict no serious damage on innocent bystanders...
Later, Gary noticed that leaves were fluttering from the trees, realized that bullets were cutting them down. "We might have run-but it is not etiquette to run, and very little good." Often the target of snipers, he created a truism about them: "The sniper waits for the failure of the imagination and shoots you because you have forgotten that you must believe...