Word: threatened
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...enormous 670,000 tons (equivalent to 25% of the total dropped by both the U.S.A.A.F. and the R.A.F. on Europe during World War II) in more than 26,000 sorties. Most of their bombs are aimed south of the DMZ, where few if any antiaircraft missiles exist to threaten the lumbering, relatively slow-moving attackers. Some 80 of the Strategic Air Command's older D and E models of the B-52, originally designed to haul nuclear weapons, have been converted for Viet Nam duty. They normally carry up to 84 conventional "iron" bombs of 500 lbs. each tucked...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Cities of the Future." Pollution, congestion and slums threaten to reduce America's urban centers to a vast wasteland. Walter Cronkite reports...
Still, for all the talk of "polycentrism" in Communist leadership, Moscow has never really abandoned Nikolai Bukharin's notion that "centripetal tendencies" would one day unite world Communism under the Kremlin banner. Now the Czechoslovaks not only threaten to speed the breakup of Eastern Europe but propose a top-to-bottom spiritual reordering of the Communist way of life as well. Says British Kremlinologist Tibor Szamuely: "Russia is perfectly correct in interpreting the Czechoslovak experiment as something that will lead that country into a non-Communist democracy. The Soviet empire in Eastern Europe is at stake...
...East and West-instead of Asia. As for Viet Nam, he advocated a "political settlement," adding, "Our interest runs only to avoiding the kinds of violence which can transcend national frontiers and threaten the wider peace...
...order and places all political parties under the control of a special court. The court will approve only those groups that, in the constitution's words, "contribute to the advancement of the national interest"-a wording vague enough to enable the junta to outlaw any groups that might threaten its own grip on power...