Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, the Viet Cong recruiters have their standards. Any man under 4 ft. 10 in. is rejected, as are those with kinfolk fighting for the government, those with such ailments as stomach trouble, tuberculosis, asthma or an amputated trigger finger. To avoid infiltration by government spies, one captured document enjoined against recruiting former ARVN volunteers, Roman Catholics, and "those young men whose father or mother were killed by the Revolution, landlords' sons, and those whose parents, brothers and sisters were tyrants, opponents and distributors of the Revolution...
...among themselves; the British frigate they were supposed to board swung at anchor off Antigua. But sooner or later the combined expedition from Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago and Barbados expects to sail to Anguilla and restore the authority of St. Kitts' Premier, Robert Bradshaw, whose highhanded rule helped trigger the revolt. If it does, warned Anguilla's new President, Ronald Webster, it will be a "direct challenge...
...long time. They hauled big guns and little patrol boats over the desert to the banks of the Suez Canal, where a handful of blue-helmeted U.N. observers finally took up positions to guard the cease-fire line, conspicuously flying the blue-and-white U.N. flag to ward off trigger-happy soldiers on both sides. They sent technicians into the Sinai desert to begin working the captured Egyptian oil wells, which could easily fulfill all of Israel's oil needs. And Premier Levi Eshkol, who had only a few weeks ago disavowed Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's statement...
...murder. The plan is drawn by British intelligence, which somehow cannot find a single soul on its staff to eliminate a defecting spy in East Germany. Recalling that the furniture man was a sharpshooter back in World War II, the British decide to turn him back into a trigger man, with the boys in London calling the shots. He refuses, so they rig up a series of schemes, including the kidnaping of his son, to break down his resistance. When Sinatra is told that his son has been killed he finally goes to Leipzig to carry out the assignment...
...system hinges on the installation of an atomic clock and a 40-lb. computer mechanism in every U.S. commercial aircraft. At three-second intervals, precisely timed signals from the computers would surround each aircraft with a protective electronic bubble. When one bubble touched another, the system would trigger an audio-visual alarm and possibly give the pilots a harmless electric shock. In today's jets, the warning would come 60 seconds prior to possible collision, when the aircraft were about 20 miles apart. Twenty seconds later, after electronic analysis of courses, speeds and altitudes, the sensor-computers would signal...