Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Packard's Wand. In fact, any confidence Fulbright might have had in the Safeguard system had already been undermined by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who turned up to testify armed with a raft of charts and diagrams showing Russia's growing threat as an 1CBM power. When he had finished explaining them with the help of a pointer, Senator Albert Gore asked to borrow his "wand" and produced some homemade charts of his own. The resulting debate on "overkill"-nuclear capability beyond that needed to assure the total destruction of an enemy-turned primarily...
...plucky South Korean government is under constant threat from the Communist North, and so its fears about spies are justified. Still, Yun insisted that he had gone to East Berlin only to inquire about an old friend in North Korea. His illegal "espionage" trip had been merely to examine a 4th century tomb at Nangnang, which was to be the locale of Butterfly Widow, the second part of Dreams. Unimpressed, a Seoul tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment; it gave his wife a three-year term, then suspended it and allowed her to return to their two teenage children...
With such an unorthodox style of play, the Bruins enter the Eastern Division series as the unknown threat. In the Western Division playoffs, St. Louis should have little trouble disposing of the other young teams in the league. The Blues should face Philadelphia in the first round, with the Oakland Seals and the Los Angeles Kings pairing for the chance to meet them in the second round...
...councillors to retain office. Under Cambridge's proportional representation system of elections, a relatively small, but concentrated number of votes can swing an election. Given the City's poor record on constructing low-income housing in recent years, an organizing campaign for more low-income housing--with an implicit threat of action at the polls--might prove remarkably efficient in spurring the City Council to more vigorous support for housing...
...council, of course, has much less power than the City Manager, but it retains one vital power: firing the City Manager. Two Cambridge City Mangers have been fired within the last three years. The threat of another firing would probably assure that the current manager, James L. Sullivan, would follow up on his promising beginning in the housing area. Sullivan is reputed to want to "make a name for himself" while City Manager here; beginning a large-scale program for construction of low-rent housing by the City and the universities would be one good...