Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mounting Skepticism. In Saigon, the popular mood was sullen, even acrimonious. Vietnamese complained that Lam Son was a U.S. concoction designed to accomplish U.S. goals and the ARVN was paying a dear price. Every hour, truckloads of fresh corpses rolled into the Bien Hoa military cemetery, where gravediggers had been ordered to double their normal 100-graves-a-week pace...
...Vietnamize" the war will "change the color of the casualties," its goal is still a military victory. And the only way to win a war of national liberation, he added, is to deliver a crushing blow to the enemy-the kind of blow that tactical nuclear weapons "could accomplish overnight...
Whatever else it may eventually accomplish, the ARVN thrust has already given the world a glimpse of a shipping system that has long defied some of the heaviest bombing in history and fueled a quarter of a million men for the better part of a decade. Ho's trail has sections of paved highway, but most of it consists of two ruts dug out by the wheels of countless trucks or leafy footpaths barely wide enough for one man. Photographer Ennio lacobucci, on assignment from TIME, accompanied ARVN troops along a two-mile stretch of one trail and cabled...
...endure the tough, pragmatic grind usually required for worldly success. The contradiction, as a great many parents and children learn, can cause great strain. "The basic orientation in my family," Livingston Taylor remembers, "was that simply because you were a Taylor, you could and should be able to accomplish anything...
...Even if one believes the official U.S. claims that there are not now, never have been, and never will be, U.S. troops in Laos, one has to admit that the presence of American advisers in every department of the Laotian government, in every Royal province, seems to accomplish the same thing...