Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House itself has secretly sanctioned rigidly controlled missions over Communist territory. But last week's attack was the biggest ever-and it was launched by U.S. military commanders in Asia who had suddenly gotten White House clearance to use whatever firepower they deemed necessary to destroy the target...
Most of the planes got through unscathed, but by the time the last jets had reached the target, the excited Reds got off some telling ack-ack rounds. Down went two of the attackers, an F-100 and an F-105, and out went the pilots in their parachutes. While the remaining U.S. jets held Communist ground troops at bay with strafing runs, U.S. helicopters fluttered in from nearby bases, picked up Captain Albert C. Vollmer, 32, of Denton, Kans. His downed flight mate, Captain Charles L. Ferguson, 35, of Clovis, N. Mex., hid all night in the jungle before...
Autocratic Outrages. The liberal Democrats' next target was the once mighty Rules Committee, which must pass on every bill before it goes to a floor vote. Until 1961 Virginia's conservative Democrat Howard ("Judge") Smith had almost dictatorial powers, because of a coalition with Republicans. Smith's strength was dissipated in 1961 when John Kennedy and Speaker Rayburn rammed through a change in committee membership. But Lyndon's lieutenants in Congress wanted to take no chances of any kind, and the caucus approved new rules that would give Speaker McCormack broad powers to release any bill...
...these problems were small beside the enormous political implications. The ultimate collapse of Malaysia and Indo-China could be a coup de grâce to the West's remaining position in all of Asia. The next target might well be the Philippines. Japan would be put under serious new pressure. And the psychological shock waves in Africa and the Latin American countries would be very grave indeed...
With the new Haystack antenna that can project a narrow beam of 8,000-megacycle, 1.5-inch microwaves that behave just like light. Dr. Shapiro plans to follow the planet Venus around its orbit, accurately measuring the time that the microwaves take to reach their target and bounce back. While Venus is well away from the sun, that time can be translated into the planet's calculated distance on its well-known orbit. But as Venus begins to swing behind the sun, the microwaves will pass through the strongest part of the sun's gravitational field. If Einstein...