Word: 3rd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tanks cough and rumble to life. In quick order, the assembled units roar down serpentine German roads toward fighting positions that have long since been plotted for protective cover and fields of fire. Within two hours of the first cry of the sirens, the 14,617-man 3rd Armored Division of the U.S. Seventh Army is braced in battle deployment against any Communist thrust through the "Hessian Corridor"-a stretch of gentle, rolling country that invites invasion from East Germany...
Even on such practice alerts, which take place at least once a month, the 3rd Armored had better be ready, or it will soon hear from its commanding officer, one of the toughest soldiers in a tough U.S. Army. Says Major General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, 47: "Our mission is to be prepared to fight. We are ready to fight." If war comes in Germany, it will smash against the U.S. Seventh Army, which guards more than 300 miles of the East German and Czechoslovakian border and anchors the NATO defense line that stretches 650 miles from Austria to the North...
...spirit of the 503rd men is so high that many were genuinely disappointed that they did not get into action earlier this year during the Laotian crisis. Says Captain Jere Hickman: "We were sharpening our knives. I felt sorry for the enemy." The paratroopers share Okinawa with the rugged 3rd Marine Division, which also would be thrown into a fight in Southeast Asia. "We can go into any landlocked country anywhere," says one 503rd officer. "Every single bit of our equipment is parachutable. Every man jumps even our chaplains. They don't carry guns, but they can pass...
...tell Mr. Paisner that I agree with Tocsin's principle of unilateral initiatives towards disarmament provided they did not jeopardize our security, though I might disagree on specifics. This comment was not reported. For the rest, I urged Mr. Paisner to read the transcript of the Tuesday evening, October 3rd, WGBH program on the Stowe Conference...
Christians were against abortion from the beginning, holding that the fetus is not part of the mother but a person in its own right, and they also opposed contraception. St. Hippolytus in the 3rd century criticized Pope St. Callistus for his leniency in granting absolution to ''women, reputed believers, who began to resort to drugs for producing sterility, and to gird themselves round, so as to expel what was being conceived...