Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided) antitank missile, a portable weapon that proved extremely effective in Viet...
These weapons include French-designed, Israeli-modified, wire-guided missiles and simple bazooka-type weapons with a warhead designed by the Israelis to penetrate the thickest armor (16 in.) on Soviet tanks. Using these missiles, the Israelis have decimated Russian T-54 and T-55 tanks and already scored an impressive number of kills on the T-62, the new Soviet main battle tank, which had never before been used in combat...
This kind of deduction was eliminated in June 1969 by the Tax Reform Act, but the President got his gift in under the wire in March of that year...
...Cambridge, McGovern's chief speech writer, Robert Schrum, a fellow at the Institute of Politics, echoed Stern's charge that the Republicans on the committee were engaged in a "fishing expedition, adding "they (the Republicans) have to be desperate to compare actions such as the Ellsberg burglary and wire tapping with Dick Tuck's pranks...
...WIRE TAPS. Kissinger admitted that he had acquiesced in the White House tapping of the phones of 17 newsmen and officials, including some of his own staffers. At the time, Kissinger recalled, the White House was deeply concerned about leaks to reporters of National Security Council material. Justifying his involvement in the tapping, Kissinger sounded much like some of the Watergate characters. The "painful but necessary" process, he said, had been approved by the President, the then Attorney General (John Mitchell) and the FBI director (J. Edgar Hoover). "I had been in the Government only four months, and it didn...