Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Libya tried to interfere with the fighter patrols, the Navy pilots would undoubtedly defend themselves, as in 1981, when they knocked down two Libyan jets over the gulf after one had opened fire. But targets within Libya also look tempting to some U.S. strategists. One is an expanding military air base, nine miles south of the coastal city of Surt, where intelligence satellites show construction of twelve Soviet SA-5 ground-to-air missile sites. Another potential target is a nuclear-reactor project being built along the coast with Soviet help. A dangerous complication: the reactor and the batteries...
...insurgency will lose much of its momentum once Marcos leaves office. But she insists that she will use force to fight any group that seeks to overthrow a genuinely democratic government or "destroy our cultural heritage, including our belief in God." Early in her campaign Aquino gave Marcos a target of opportunity when she said that she would offer Communists who eschewed the use of force a place in her government. Later she backed away from that statement, choosing to emphasize instead her personal anti-Communist beliefs...
...cool, crisp February morning Sylvester Stallone's travelling carnival of destruction has come to Harvard. If you don't like it, blow it up. A major university, a center of learning, culture and, most important, of reason, seems a natural target for America's avenging archangel...
...more than a year the Crimson has reported and supported a campaign, first to dissociate the College from the Final Clubs and, now, to persuade students that membership in them is dishonorable. Given the modest role of the Clubs in the life of the College, they seem a curious target for such sustained reformist zeal. It is hard to resist the suspicion that a pinch of self-righteousness and a dollop of envy are amongst the campaigners' motivations...
After the first round of play, the score was tied 2-2. But Captain Kenton Jernigan--who won both his weekend matches--and his troops got on target in the second round to finish off the nation's fourth-ranked team...