Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Predawn Assault. For the U.S., the chief immediate question was: Have the Russians renewed the cold war? A pri-ma-facie case can be made to the ef fect that they have; that Moscow has once again substituted force for reason, and that a seemingly businesslike regime is in fact dangerously unstable...
...prevailing, but by no means unanimous, view within the Administration is that Hanoi is merely regrouping and re-equipping its forces in preparation for a new assault. This has been the history of previous lulls-and "lull" is a relative term. Fierce fighting continues, and at the end of last week Communist-initiated ground action was accelerating. U.S. military commanders in Viet Nam, pointing to the massive infiltration of troops (150,000 so far this year) from the North, believe that the big attack will come any day and that the main thrust will be aimed at Sai gon itself...
They are also planning a strong assault on the platform committee in order to get an unequivocal antiwar plank calling for an end to the bombing of North Viet Nam and a repudiation of past U.S. war policy. The committee will conduct morning-to-midnight hearings for six days this week in an effort to write the party doctrine...
With that salvo, the Soviets last month launched their latest assault on what has long been pretty much a free-world preserve: seaborne trade between non-Communist nations. The Soviet merchant fleet has been ranging beyond bloc trade routes for years, of course, but never have its excursions been quite so bold. At stake in the London confrontation are shipping revenues of about $192 million a year, which are now shared by the Italian, French, West German, Dutch, Scandinavian and British lines that form the in-group serving trade routes between Europe and Australia. Last year the Russians sent...
...reputation eroded, he had been considered a cinch for reelection. A lawyer who combined business and political acumen, Long was lieutenant governor when he became the Democrats' 1960 compromise choice to succeed the late Senator Thomas Hennings. Lapsing into Washington obscurity, he emerged in 1965 to launch an assault on federal wiretapping at the time that Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa was trying to escape prison, charging that the Government bugged his telephone. For a while, Long was the civil libertarians' darling. Then came an exposé in LIFE revealing his connections...