Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Workers' Sweat. From the balcony of a building housing a Nationalist Committee for Lott, he promptly made foreign capital his prime target. Said he in a small, high-pitched voice: "We no longer desire that the sweat of Brazilian workers serve to build riches for those abroad." At his second rally of the day, he called for improvement of the government steel mill, Volta Redonda, and "more guarantees for untouchable Petrobras," the state oil monopoly...
...intruder was first sighted, at midmorning three weeks ago, by a sonar operator during a training-patrol mission of three destroyers. The sonar's ping indicated a solid object moving slowly 90 ft. below the surface of the 30 mi. by 40 mi. Golfo Nuevo. The sonar target outsped the attacking destroyers, and out went a call for planes. A few hours later, a Neptune antisub plane reported spotting a submarine; ships and planes attacked, but the target disappeared...
Five days later, sonar operators made the second hard contact, but an attack only sent the intruder to 420 ft., well beyond the 300-ft. range of the Argentine depth charges. On the eighth day, radar spotted a sub, or its snorkel, above the surface. The target dived to 540 ft., but the pursuers heard a sound like hammering for the next two days, possibly indicating damage being repaired...
Neither side shows any inclination to settle. The papers, getting along with a mechanical staff less than half the pre-strike size, have set March or April as target month for returning to separately printed, normally competitive publication. The unions grimly hold on. "This is one strike we cannot afford to lose," says a representative of the international stereotypers' union. In fact, if the unions do lose, it could make a big difference in the publishing business throughout the nation...
...always many miles off target...