Word: arms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became the youngest admiral in Soviet history at 31 and has guided the growth of the navy as its chief for the past twelve years. He has totally reshaped the Soviet Union's once conservative naval strategy and transformed the fleet into the most effective and flexible arm of Soviet foreign policy...
...Harvard Draft Project now has an office in Mem Hall and a University extension telephone. What it lacks is a coherent sense of direction. Its main organizing arm--the Harvard Draft Union--has been torn by factional struggles among SDS, hard-core resistance advocates, and "apoliticals...
...most crucial test for both Nixon and Michigan's Governor George Romney. Nixon is favored to win handily in New Hampshire, but he must also win big in Wisconsin to inter his "loser's image" once and for all. For Romney, who last week got a backslapping, arm-squeezing show of support from New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller when he visited Albany to deliver two speeches, the confrontation with Nixon in the Wisconsin primary will be virtually the last chance to keep his candidacy alive. The early book gives Nixon a sizable lead, mostly because...
...people ahead of them in four separate marches. In Hué, U.S. Marines found two executed Americans, their testicles cut off. The North Vietnamese units who took Hué were ac companied by political commissars wearing gold-colored Ho Chi Minh buttons and special arm bands. Armed with complete dossiers and photographs of government officials to be arrested and executed, they methodically went from house to house with clipboards and notebooks, looking for their quarry...
Less Than 1000%. South Korea's President Chung Hee Park was as determined as Kim. Seoul began to augment its regular forces by 15,000, announced it would arm 2,500,000 reservists and veterans. After Pueblo was seized last month, the U.S. began bringing its two divisions in the South up to their full 50,000-man strength, flew in planes to three Korean airbases, and promised to speed delivery of $30 million worth of military equipment designed to combat infiltration from the North. In addition, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for an immediate military aid appropriation...