Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During World War II, the Klan slept again. But in 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court's school desegregation decision awakened it once more. As in the beginning, the Klan made the Southern Negro-and civil rights "agitators"-its target, and turned to dynamite bombings as its chief form of violence. Much of the Klan's terrorism is handled by goon squads with such picturesque names as "The Holy Terrors" and "The Secret Six." Such groups were held responsible for the mutilation and murder of three civil rights workers who were found in an earthen dam in Mississippi last...
...their carriers in the South China Sea, U.S. Navy fighter-bombers struck twice at a vital bridge link on the coastal highway just 65 miles south of the capital. The bombs and rockets that smashed the span marked the first time U.S. air power had hit a purely strategic target in North Viet...
Eight times in 13 days, U.S. and South Vietnamese bombers blasted in stallations north of the 17th parallel, moving ever closer to Hanoi. During a single week, U.S. and South Vietnamese pilots flew 17,570 sorties on both sides of the border. Their chief target was North Viet Nam's radar network: with everything from half-ton bombs to deadly white phosphorous, they hit Donghoi, Hatinh, Cap Mui Ron and, in strikes by 100 Navy planes from the aircraft carriers Coral Sea and Han cock, Bachlongvi Island, only 80 miles from Red China's heavily fortified Hainan Island...
...Percent Down. Early last week from the Seventh Fleet's carriers 250 miles away, Phantom jets and Skyraiders whooshed into the air for yet another in the latest series of U.S. strikes at North Viet Nam. This time the target was closer than ever to North Viet Nam's capital. It was a vital Viet Cong ammunition depot near Phuqui, a bare 120 miles south of Hanoi. Because the ammunition caches were dispersed over an area a mile square, each plane was allotted a predetermined bunker or corrugated-iron building. Two hours later, as the Viet Cong were...
...youngish-looking at 64, is president, general manager and principal (99%) stockholder. No longer the reluctant risk taker, he now plans to increase his factories from four to seven within three years, double production, triple sales and raise exports from 30% to 50% of total sales. One special target is the biggest appliance market...