Word: targets
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...more than 15,000 lbs. thrust each). Another important factor is the "pod" that can be hung below its fuselage. Almost ideally streamlined, the pod has comparatively little drag, but it can carry a large thermonuclear bomb and fuel for the outgoing leg of a long flight. At the target, the pod can be dropped. In effect, the use of the pod eliminates empty bomb bays and fuel tanks that other bombers must bring home with them at high cost in air resistance...
...grenade launcher to scare off several Japanese who were scavenging for metal on a U.S. rifle range near Tokyo; he struck one woman in the back and killed her (TIME, May 27). The Army insisted that Girard fired while on duty (technically he was guarding a machine gun between target practice sessions) and was therefore subject to the primary jurisdiction of U.S. military courts under the status-of-forces agreement. The Japanese held that because Girard did not fire during official exercise, he was subject to Japanese justice. Last week, in a joint statement issued at the Pentagon, Secretary...
...Moving Target. But wiping out Castro & Co. called for more than angry words. The government troops, trained on flat, open land, had to fight in mountainous terrain in which the rebels were thoroughly at home. Batista's forces had orders to shoot at anything that moved-but in the tangled, rain-soaked forests of the Sierra Maestra it was hard to see anything move. In the 5½ months following Castro's Mexico-based invasion, his rebels learned how to fire from cover and silently slip away to fire again. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening...
...much a bone of contention as Girard himself was the U.S.-Japanese "status of forces" agreement, which holds in general that U.S. military men shall be subject to Japanese law except when on duty. Japan claimed jurisdiction under the agreement because Girard shot the woman during a target-practice rest period, therefore was technically off duty. U.S. military authorities (who might have been able to head off the whole uproar by promptly court-martialing Girard) argued that he was on duty during the rest period, was therefore subject to military discipline. Finally, Rear Admiral Miles H. Hubbard, U.S. representative...
...meet their ambitious target, the six nations must first ratify the Euratom Treaty, and then ante up more than $6 billion. Even so, a decade hence, Europe, said the three, will still be far from self-sufficient in power...