Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attacker's motives has not helped matters. Some teachers in Moscow schools told their pupils last week that the gunman was a rejected cosmonaut who had a grudge against his successful colleagues. Other Russians say that the gunman was a member of a conspiracy and that his target was Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. In fact, there is speculation that the gunman fired on the auto carrying Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy because his heavy jowls and bushy eyebrows resemble those of Brezhnev. The most prevalent rumor in Moscow has it that the shooting was the result of a plot...
...Radical Target. But he had enemies in both ideological blocs as well. He believed that he was marked for death by Portugal's secret police (PIDE), who knew him as the most direct threat to continued Portuguese control over his native Mozambique. He was also a target for radical Mozambicans who look to Communist China for inspiration. In March 1968, angry radicals forced the temporary closing of the Mozambique Institute, headed by Mondlane's American wife Janet, and two months later a Frelimo central committee member was stabbed to death in a pitched battle for control of Frelimo...
...settle most issues with negotiations, Allen, son of a Presbyterian minister, has shown a steely sense of mission in handing down controversial decisions. He was charged with "coddling the Communists" when he blocked a New York City teacher-loyalty campaign in the 1950s, and he was even more the target of acrimony when he ordered the integration of hostile all-white districts in 1963. But after last fall's bitter, 36-day New York City teacher strike, he was the only major participant to emerge with his reputation intact. It was Allen's plan to place a state...
Despite all precautions, bankers believe that their institutions will remain a favorite robbery target because they can be relatively easy and safe to hold up. In Washington, one stickup man admitted that he switched to robbing banks because holding up liquor stores "got to be too dangerous...
...envy is an undergraduate operator named Paxton Quigley, who conducts a personal course in concupiscence. Quigley cracks feminine reserve the way a grind cracks books-with a dedication that borders on frenzy. Yet, according to a breezy little movie called 3 in the Attic, he is also a prime target for a fate worse than dearth...