Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since regular raids on the North were begun, the air campaign has gradually spread from the southern panhandle section of North Viet Nam to encompass nearly every area of the country and nearly every type of target. The number of raids has steadily increased. There were 23,500 missions (usually with two to five planes in each mission) in 1966; so far this year, nearly 22,000 missions have been flown. In addition to the thousands of trucks, railroad cars and sampans that have been destroyed, the five jet airfields bombed and the hundreds of miles of roads...
...public, find it increasingly difficult to accept the grindingly slow pace of the war, the continual second-guessing by critics and outsiders who argue that it should never have been undertaken in the first place, and that it is being badly prosecuted. Last week, with the broadening of the target list in North Viet Nam to permit strikes a scant ten miles from China, the outcries reached a new pitch...
...recent target authorizations near China, Johnson was more meticulous than ever. He did not want the planes to come in on their bombing runs headed toward Chinese territory. So close were the targets that in a matter of seconds the supersonic jets could have crossed into China. The President finally accepted the tactic of having the planes come in parallel to the border-but only after he was convinced that they would thereby run the least risk from antiaircraft fire. The main concern, however, was with the broader implications. "A bomb near the Chinese border," says the President, "had better...
...candy industry, made up of small, struggling companies, is astir with mergers and sellouts, and Peter Paul has become a key target. "We've had feelers from food, tobacco and cosmetic companies," says Zender. Not interested, Zender is looking for acquisitions himself, planning foreign expansions and developing seven new candy bars. For Peter Paul, the future can be described by the company slogan: "Indescribably Delicious...
...much the same. The hero is a junior executive named Diddy, and the question is, Did he, while traveling on a train, butcher an innocent railroad workman? Diddy is sure he did it; yet a blind girl near by who hears all and who proves to be on target about everything else, says he never left his seat. But most of the time Diddy's deed seems the least of the author's concerns, for she is too busy with other things: writing the kind of "modernistic" conundrum that was fashionable in the '20s, folding in essays...