Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as a growing group of U.S. Senators complained that many of the most vital military and transportation facilities in North Viet Nam remain untouched, U.S. bombs rained down last week on a hitherto inviolate target: the one-mile Long Bien Bridge. Less than two miles from downtown Hanoi, the French-built bridge carries all the rail and road traffic between the North Vietnamese capital and China. U.S. Thunderchief and Phantom fighter-bombers scored four direct hits on the steel structure, sent a 300-ft. center span-splashing into the Red River. Elsewhere over the North, Air Force fighter-bombers...
...every slum, the chronically hard up residents actually pay more for most goods than do wealthier whites in better neighborhoods. During a brief outburst of rioting in Watts last year, the arsonists' first target was a supermarket chain that habitually stocked the shelves of its slum stores with scraggly meat and wilted vegetables that white customers had rejected in other outlets. In Detroit's slums, a 5-lb. bag of flour costs 14? more than in fashionable Grosse Pointe, Mich., peas 12? more per can, eggs up to 250 more per dozen. A television set selling...
...five-year-old shorter-range (6,300 miles) Minuteman I missiles. Thus, as the more effective Minuteman Us develop bugs in their intricate components, the nation's ICBM capability is seriously reduced. Minuteman II, when functioning perfectly, has range, flexibility and speed (about 30 min. to any target in Russia or China) unmatched by Minuteman I, the Navy's Polaris missiles (range: 2,875 miles) or, of course, intercontinental bombers. Currently, 40% of the Minuteman Us are not operational or not on alert because of malfunctions, leaving the nation comparatively naked to a Communist ICBM attack...
Square in the Middle. Primary target was a stretch of Route 4, a potholed two-lane highway over which moves most of the food that the Delta now sends to Saigon. Explained Lieut. General Frederick C. Weyand, the U.S. Area Commander: "For every day the road is closed, the price of rice in Saigon goes up 10 piasters [20]." In the past fortnight, the Viet Cong concentrated three hard-core battalions near Route 4 and mined the road eight times, bringing traffic to a virtual stop. The V.C. were obviously trying to push up food prices just as the presidential...
...portraits. He drove into the action in his station wagon and, using the steering wheel as an easel, started sketching, with TIME'S cover in mind. He recalls: "Whenever I would get out of the car, they would throw bricks at me. I was such a target with that sketchbook! The brick or stone would hit that pastel and it would fly all over. I had gone through all of the TIME photos of Watts when I did the cover on Mayor Yorty of Los Angeles. Yet I wasn't prepared for the real thing. Detroit reminded...