Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporters were not allowed inside a walled area which Libyan naval instructors indicated was an underwater training facility, and which Pentagon officials said was the main target of the attack against the seaside base, 10 miles west of Tripoli...
Pentagon sources said officials areinvestigating the possibility that the F-111bomber dropped a bomb off-target after being hitby anti-aircraft fire...
Though final action reports will not be available for some months, Pentagon officials last week continued to defend the performance of the Navy's high- tech weapons. With so-called smart weapons like the harm, which homes in on radar signals to find its way to the target, "you get a higher probability of kill," says Donald Hicks, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. "But you have to recognize that nothing is perfect." Such smart weapons are designed to cripple a radar dish, not destroy an entire missile site...
...specific target of the rising Korean protest is an electoral system under which the country's 41 million people choose more than 5,000 electors, who in turn select a President. Chun has suggested that the 1988 elections be held on schedule in the traditional fashion. The winner could then oversee a constitutional reform and direct elections in 1989. His opponents, who fear that Chun's hand-picked successor may renege on such an agreement, want constitutional reform now. Under pressure from Washington, Chun finally allowed the opposition to organize rallies to collect signatures of support for the proposed reform...
...obtain and finance franchises) and Syrian President Hafez Assad (who, at Jackson's urging, released a U.S. flyer shot down over Lebanon in 1983). Today Jackson and Chicago-based Operation PUSH, an organization that he founded, are in the midst of a new crusade, and this time the target is the TV networks...