Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vital Difference. Basically, FOBS can pack the punch of some ICBMs-with a vital difference. Shot into a low orbit of 100 miles, the FOBS rocket slows and ejects its nuclear bomb before completing its route around the globe. This combination would prevent anti-ballistic missile radar (BMEWS), presently the U.S.'s main screen against surprise attack, from ascertaining the point of impact until the rocket "deboosts"-about three minutes and 500 miles from target. By contrast, the U.S. now has a 15-minute warning against ICBMs. Experts say that the Soviet FOBS could carry the maximum payload equivalent...
...Vital Issue. Most vocal in criticizing the autos from the East is British Motor Corporation. In January, Honda entered the British market with the 5800 sports car selling for $250 less than B.M.C.'s MGB. Now it will offer the N-360, an air-cooled two-cylinder car that even with extras sells for $140 less than B.M.C.'s comparable minimodel...
...efforts to establish a dealership network. Says Lester Suffield, B.M.C.'s deputy managing director in charge of sales: "Of course we are getting tough. It has taken us 50 years to build up our sales network, and we don't intend to give one inch on this vital issue." Especially grating is the fact that the little Japanese cars coming into Britain pay a 22% duty, while mini-size cars entering Japan...
...Vital Areas. As Kennan sees it, there are "only five regions of the world-the United States, the United Kingdom, the Rhine Valley with adjacent industrial areas, the Soviet Union and Japan-where the sinews of modern military strength could be produced in quantity." These, he argues, should be the vital areas of U.S. concern; all the others must be secondary. Since one of the areas is under Communist control, the first task for U.S. policy since World War II has been to see to it that "none of the remaining ones fell under such control." Accordingly, he sees...
...resolve. His opposition to the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam grows out of his belief that Peking does not now pose a threat to U.S. interests. Yet he concedes that China, under a firm, unifying hand and armed with nuclear weapons, may one day join the five existing "vital" areas as a formidable sixth. It would thus automatically become of prime concern to the U.S. to contain a Communist-ruled China. How to do it is another question, and Kennan has no ready answer. He simply does not think that South Viet Nam was the best place to begin...