Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mandates. "Whatever the outcome," said Reagan in his weekly radio address Saturday, "we intend to go forward with our plan to bring the federal budget into balance by 1991." In one respect, Reagan's 1987 blueprint is less draconian than expected. It edges below the $144 billion deficit target with a $38 billion package of spending cuts and revenue proposals, rather than the $60 billion outlay reduction that had been predicted. The reason: the Administration now estimates that the deficit will drop about $20 billion partly through the increase in revenues produced by a growing economy. Critics were dubious, particularly...
Habash, whose organization helped pioneer skyjack terrorism in 1968 but later publicly disavowed the tactic, acknowledged that he had flown from Damascus to Tripoli aboard the same plane earlier in the week and said he believed he had been an intended target of the Israeli interception. Said Habash, who was nearly kidnaped by Israeli commandos during a similar attack in 1973: "The capture of any Palestinian leader is a good thing from their point of view...
...commission argued that in a crisis, the Midgetman would be a less tempting target for a Soviet first strike because it would take numerous attacking warheads to destroy a mobile missile and even then the attackers would only knock out one missile. That contrasts with the stationary MX and its 10 warheads...
...leading deployment plan apparently is to put the weapon aboard armored, wheeled launchers that could be driven around large military bases in the western United States, making them hard for the Soviets to target...
...this year than in past years, the house is more vulnerable to crime than other Harvard houses, according to Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely. Located near the Square and with access to the house possible directly from Plympton St., Bow St., and Linden St., Adams is an appealing target for Cambridge burglars, Kiely said...