Word: triggering
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...their best to ignore was the National Guard's sorry performance during the summer riots in Newark and Detroit. In both cities, several deaths were attributed to unnecessary gunfire from Guardsmen. The regular Army generals who commanded the Michigan contingent reported that that state's Guardsmen were trigger-happy, scary and undisciplined. In the wake of the Detroit upheaval, the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders also found that Negro representation in the Army Guard is minuscule (1.15% nationwide v. 10.6% in the Army in Viet Nam), officer quality below par, and riot training perfunctory...
...better and better at this sort of thing," says Charles M. Herzfeld, until recently director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. "I think that it is really our secret weapon." Still, there are plenty of bugs in the system: rats, dogs, or even rainfall can trigger the gadgets-and it rains an average of 120 inches during the monsoon. Other zones will be swept by radar. Hair-thin trip wires, mine fields and conventional barbed-wire entanglements will block several notorious invasion routes...
Mass Resignations. A similar impasse in New York City may well trigger some 40,000 teacher resignations, mostly by members of the militant United Federation of Teachers, thereby delaying the scheduled opening of school this week for more than a million children. U.F.T. President Albert Shanker, a former junior-high math teacher, argued that there is nothing to prevent a teacher from quitting his job, although under a state law the union can be fined up to $10,000 a day for striking. Union leaders rejected a two-year, $125 million package of benefits proposed by Mayor John Lindsay...
...Novelist Constantine FitzGibbon, intellectuals tend to follow a double standard. If the war happens to trigger their emotions, they don't worry much about moral behavior. "If the struggle is remote," he writes, "it can be viewed as an intellectual exercise and a moral problem. Stern judgments can then be handed down, and safely. It would seem that for the run-of-the-mill intellectual, the less he knows about a complex issue far away the stronger his moral judgments...
...were heavy from mines and machine guns: at least one in ten was killed before the Israelis who made it to the summit plunged into the tunnels to hunt down the defenders. At one point, an Israeli and a Syrian officer came face to face. The Israeli pulled the trigger of his Uzzi submachine gun. It was empty. The Syrian jerked the trigger on his Soviet assault rifle. It, too, was empty. With that, the Israeli clubbed the Syrian down with his Uzzi...