Word: bases
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...more conspicuous are the modern churches, the fancy airline offices, the laundromats, the suburban-style family theater, and the Disney-Frontier-land-like amusement park called Alaskaland all built along the few miles of divided highway that stretches between the busy Fairbanks airport and Fort Wainwright, a sprawling Army base just outside the center of Fairbanks; more conspicuous are the J. C. Penney's department store and the Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken Take-Home and the A and W Root Beer drive-in and the two Dairy Queens. In a very short time, largely because of the presence...
...which yields aluminum, as well as possessing diamonds, gold, and iron-ore. This wealth makes Guinea one of the richest lands in Africa and lends to the possibility that Guinea will be one of the most powerful of the African countries. With Pan-Africanism as a political base, Guinea is seen as a dangerous nation to Portuguese interests in Guinea-Bissau. Further implications of the attack upon Guinea are that Portugal eventually seeks to control Guinea as well as Guinea-Bissau because both states are exceptionally wealthy and that as a politically correct and politically advancing state, Guinea will make...
Population gain, of course, is no longer entirely a source of the civic booster's pride. It offends the ecological sensibility. Yet it remains crucial to underdeveloped regions such as Appalachia and urban centers that watch their affluent whites desert to suburbs, eroding the tax base and more simply the fund of human beings on whom congressional representation and the apportionment of federal funds depend. More people to get more money to care for more people. The Malthusian Catch...
...bombing attacks the same night, involving some 250 U.S. jets, went beyond North Vietnamese antiaircraft defenses to include large concentrations of troops and supplies massed just inside North Viet Nam near the Laotian border. Early last week a lone U.S. F-105 fighter-bomber attacked an antiaircraft-missile base in North Viet Nam. To justify the pre-emptive strike, the Pentagon came up with still another coinage in the air-war vocabulary: the pilot had exercised "the inherent right of self-defense," even though he had not been fired upon...
...raiders set off from Nakhon Phanom, a search-and-rescue base in Thailand. They approached their objective overland across Laos and mountainous inland North Viet Nam, a route that avoided the enemy's heaviest radar and antiaircraft defenses. When they returned emptyhanded, Nixon telephoned both Laird and Moorer. He had no regrets, he said; it had been a good plan, the right thing to do. If nothing else, the raid had clearly embarrassed Hanoi by pointing up the holes in the North Vietnamese air defenses...