Word: attack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many questions about My Lai remain unanswered. Who had ordered the attack on the hamlet, which was apparently designated as a "free-fire" zone? What exactly were the orders? The answers may come out in a court-martial; Fort Benning Commander Major General Orwin Talbott is expected to announce a decision this week on whether Lieut. Galley is to be tried. Even so, time has already erased much of the evidence...
Spearhead Spiro. Last week the Administration again attacked its tormentors, real and imagined. Once more Vice President Spiro Agnew served as eager spearhead, delivering another speech written by Nixon Aide Pat Buchanan. The broadside came on a mission to Alabama as part of Agnew's attempts to protect the Administration's Southern flank. The White House would like to prevent George Wallace from recap turing the Governor's mansion, so Agnew had kind words for the incumbent, Democrat Albert Brewer. In his speech the Vice President continued and broadened the previous week's attack on television...
...Steele reported from Helsinki, the whole thrust of U.S. tactics is to 1) convince the Soviets of the devastating strength of America's weaponry, and 2) persuade them that the U.S. seeks only a retaliatory second-strike capability that would be used in the event of an enemy attack...
...According to the rule of thumb of missile strategists, one missile power takes advantage of another by attacking its silos instead of its population centers: this way, the other nation's retalitory power is immediately demolished. The ability to do this is termed first-strike capability. A non-aggressor nation, on the other hand, merely wants to forestall attack. This it does by aiming its missles at potential agressor's cities as a retalitory threat: then it protects these retalitory missiles with ABMS. This is described as a second-strike capability...
...agreement winds up the last unfinished business that dates back to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In a speech to the National Press Club, Premier Sato, who speaks in fluent but accented English, hailed the Okinawa accord as bringing the postwar period to a close. He promised that Japan, as an equal partner of the U.S., "will make its contribution to the peace and prosperity of the Asian-Pacific region, and hence to the entire world." Sato could afford to be expansive. By having satisfactorily settled the Okinawa issue, he had greatly enhanced his own political standing at home...