Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where it should be, in the hands of Vice President George Bush. On his flight back from Texas to Washington, Bush was accompanied by a military aide carrying the Vice President's version of the "football"-an unremarkable black leather case containing top-secret signal codes and military target information...
...Senate. But what if in the process of carrying out his part of the new mandate, he misjudges the flow and gets too far out in front of Ronald Reagan? In that case Watt himself, and not the people he is determined to convert, could become the target of the President's bounty hunters. -ByRobertAjemian/Washington
...firing away like madmen. Let's hope they'll use up all their ammunition." Lieut. Jorge, a squad commander, struggled to set up a 60-mm mortar while his men fired M79 grenade launchers at the enemy gunners. When the first mortar shell overshot its target, a taunting cry echoed from the guerrillas' hilltop position: "Come and get us, you queer cowards...
Jorge then ordered up fire support from the armored cars' 90-mm guns back in Palo Grande. Captain Juan Vicente warned him to make sure of the coordinates or the guns would "blow us to hell too." The salvos were on target; after two rounds the machine gun fell silent. There was no way to tell whether the shells had hit it or whether the guerrillas had decided to retreat...
...upside down. Julian (1964) strikes a blow for paganism and the Roman Emperor who tried to halt the spread of Christianity. Both Burr (1973) and 1876 (1976) portray the U.S. founding fathers and their successors in distinctly unheroic postures. Creation opens on a similarly iconoclastic note. Vidal's target this time is the Athens of Pericles, the cradle of Western democracy...