Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program with scientific thoroughness. Nominally, their campaign was directed against "exploiting landlords," but in practice people were liquidated because their parents or grandparents were landlords, because they were intellectuals, village elders, held religious beliefs, objected to Communism in principle, or simply would not cooperate. The Lo cadres were given target quotas for grain and confiscated land, so that even if a village had few landlords, a necessary percentage of Hsiao Mieh was written up. The announced objective was to redistribute the land among the peasants, and that was actually done. But the real purpose was to break the fabric...
...Cambridge Common and in the Yard, and leave town as quickly as possible via Mt. Auburn St., Fresh Pond Parkway, Boylston St., and Concord Ave., Burke said. He added that the test will be conducted because Cambridge has been designated as one on the nation's 47 "target cities"--urban areas most likely to be attacked by a potential enemy...
Civil Defense officials say that the basis for the change in policy, from taking shelter to complete evacuation, is the new estimated casualty figures for cities filled with people if a nuclear attack occurs. They point out that blast effects of the bombs and contamination would make emptying of target area mandatory...
...Boise, Idaho, after Vice President Nixon had claimed G.O.P. credit for the Supreme Court's desegregation decision (see above), Adlai shifted his fire to the Democrats' favorite target. Nixon, he said acidly, "is an all-purpose politician who can proclaim an old Democratic program as good when it wears a new Republican label, and denounce it as socialism at the same time.'' In Salt Lake City he said: "Warren is no more a Republican Chief Justice than the seven members who were appointed under previous Administrations are Democratic Justices. These nine men jointly performed their duty...
First Franco fired Education Minister Joaquin Ruiz Gimenez, 46, an energetic Catholic intellectual of mildly liberal tendencies, who last November made a speech calling on the government to "listen to the people's heartbeat." Thus he was a natural target for Falange Party criticism of the "dangerous freethinking atmosphere" on Madrid University campus. But the Falange was not the only voice in Franco's ear. Possibly for the first time, the grievances of Spain's rising middle classes (of whose restlessness under rigid Falange controls the student riots were a symptom) also claimed Franco's consideration...