Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard and Yale--on target for a championship showdown--will meet later this month on Soldiers Field...
...fire verbally at anything that moves. I don't expect immediate understanding, but I shouldn't have to wear an orange hat to answer the phone. I and many others cannot warn you ahead of time that we are vulnerable. Don't shoot until you have identified your target...
...deck of a U.S. ship. Ky, 54, who has owned several successful liquor stores in California, is planning to join a partnership that will develop Vietnamese fast-food outlets. He has been accused of leading a crime ring involving former South Vietnamese army officers, but is not the target of any investigations. "I'm not a Mafia chieftain," he insists. "I'm a poor man." Ky's view on U.S. conduct of the war: "With a 'no win' policy, you have no chance of winning...
...fight, but he wanted the scraps small, on the cheap, on the quiet, done and over in a hurry. Early in 1965 he was mad at everybody. "The let-us-negotiate people are rabbits. I'm being pushed all the time by the big- bomb boys. I took one target off the list the other night because it was too close to Hanoi. But if the South Vietnamese can't protect American installations, we might have to send more Americans over to do the job." More men. More bombs...
...Africa, Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) is waging a classic war of attrition in the bush. Its target, the pro-Soviet government in Luanda, relies heavily on some 30,000 Cuban troops, much as the South Vietnamese government relied on American forces until 1975. UNITA's principal backer is South Africa, but Savimbi has visited Washington as frequently as some anticolonialist revolutionaries used to visit Moscow...