Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Liberia had never experienced a coup d'état, a remarkable record given the turbulent politics of West Africa. Last weekend a group of noncommissioned officers and Liberian National Guardsmen conducted a bold dawn raid on the palatial executive mansion in the capital city of Monrovia. Their target: William R. Tolbert Jr., 66, Liberia's President and the current chairman of the Organization of African Unity. According to one account, Tolbert was shot in the face and killed. His wife Victoria and members of the Cabinet, the judiciary and the legislature were seized and imprisoned...
...fire to the wooden roof that covered the long rows of the terra cotta army. The roof collapsed and buried the soldiers alive, as it were, much as Vesuvius' lava covered the citizens of Pompeii. The tomb may have been similarly looted - it must have been an irresistible target. For the Emperor was no ordinary man; he planned no small plans. (Once, when a storm foiled a projected trip to Mount Xiang, he took revenge by ordering the mountain shorn of all its trees, and then painted red.) Once Shihuangdi had unified China's warring factions...
What grave robber could resist a target like that? The tumulus is still there, looming above the flat plain, a beacon and a challenge for China's archaeologists, a possible trove of treasures out-dazzling even those on exhibit at the Met. -A. T. Baker
...presented a plan for four black-bag jobs, OPALS I through IV. They were clandestine entries at which microphone surveillances could be placed, as well as TOPAZ: photographs taken of any documents available, including those under lock. One entry would be held in reserve for any target of opportunity Mitchell wished to designate...
...mention Anderson's name explicitly. Hunt urged the use of LSD on the steering wheel of the "target's" automobile to cause him to hallucinate at a public function and thus be discredited. The doctor shot down that idea on the ground that CIA experience with the drug had demonstrated the unpredictability of individual reaction...