Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object of "Killer" is "to kill without being killed." For a two-dollar registration fee, participants receive a plastic water pistol and an official entry card with the name of their intended target. To "kill" his victim, the assassin must show his water pistol and say. "You're dead...
...your interest for me not to come back." I suddenly remembered the snub-nosed Smith & Wesson that I had strapped on my back and a grenade I carried in my coat pocket. I was determined not to be captured alive. The immigration official would be my first target. I looked squarely at him and said: "I like this side better. I am sick and tired of what is happening in Iran, and of so-called officials who believe they have supreme power...
...Hidden Target, MacInnes...
...PANAMA CANAL TREATY was the first major target on Viguerie's hit-list. While the Republican Party waffled on the treaty in 1978, the New Right organized. It enlisted conservative groups, raised money through direct mail, and flew a "Truth Squad"--including Senators Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) and Jake Garn (R-Utah)--around the U.S. to denounce the giveaway treaty. While it lost the Senate vote, the New Right had raised and spent $3 million during the campaign and brought "countless members of the Silent Majority into the conservative movement." Viguerie claims the popular swell also put new conservatives...
...anything else, I was shocked by the attack from the Third World groups; they called us racists, and pointed to a series of what were (in our minds) perfectly explainable incidents which they said represented a racist trend. Surely, I said to myself, they could have picked a better target. After all, this was The Crimson they were talking about--the newspaper that supported the NLF in Vietnam, that conservative alumni found distasteful enough to give the University money to start up a competitor, that has always asked Harvard to increase affirmative action programs, to tenure more women and minority...