Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grenade launcher. "Beautiful little seventy-niners," the Marines call them, particularly when a 40-mm. grenade-spring-loaded with half-inch steel barbs -pops in the middle of a Viet Cong position 385 yds. away. The M-79 has two drawbacks: it is only a single-shot weapon (good grenadiers get off 16 rounds per minute), and its grenades are armed only after a flight of 30 meters through the air-in order to protect the grenadier from their fragments. A multishot M-79 is currently being tested in Viet Nam, and to solve the problem of close-in fire...
...weapon in flushing the enemy from his tunnel cities has been non-toxic CN tear gas-the use of which has brought screams of protest from critics in the U.S. Military men argue that gas is the only way of safely separating noncombatant Vietnamese hiding underground from Viet Cong. Often the gas is pumped into the tunnel complexes by means of long hoses attached to gasoline-driven pumps, but gas grenades are usually used. Last week U.S. troops in Tay Ninh were hit by Communist gas grenades. With that, the argument against U.S. use of nontoxic gas went...
...classes who now have no power. It calls for tactics that have been, up to now, outside the scope of the civil rights movement. It depends upon a realization that, when moving into the area of political and economic relationships, conscience is hardly an effective tool, much less a weapon. The shift is to the notions of power and self-interest...
Yale and Brown rely on swift forwards to score on length-of-the-field fast breaks, the weapon that crushed Harvard last season as well as last Saturday. (Dartmouth relies on its defense, and hardly ever scores...
...quitting is only the final step of a long drama of failure on the part of the school system to devise a meaningful and valuable curriculum for the student. In the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the Federal Government has forged a mighty weapon in this cause. The resources it makes available to the schools which educate the children of the poor--including the potentially massive aid to the Southern schools which still educate half of all Negro children, as well as its aid to urban slum schools--should, if effectively employed, cut the drop-out rate...