Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many senior officers have believed for some time that the Administration will inevitably have to draw on the Army National Guard and Reserve as well as the Marines' standby division. The Administration had hoped to avoid this disruptive measure, giving in only last month when it mobilized 14,000 airmen. A call-up of ground elements could well be more painful because a typical Guard division of some 14,000 men, for instance, is concentrated in one state, whereas the smaller air units are well distributed geographically. Among other possible steps to ease the shortage of trained forces would...
...when he returned to American to steer it into the postwar age of commercial aviation. He resigned only last month as American's chief executive officer and remains chairman of the board, a post he will probably have to relinquish in order to avoid conflicts of interest at Commerce...
Unlike their Western counterparts, the Soviet sailors are not allowed to let off steam in foreign ports. They go ashore only in groups escorted by a petty officer, take in local museums, points of historical interest, and window-shop. They buy few souvenirs, avoid bars and prostitutes and never tip. Usually they return to their ships by nightfall. In the ports along the Mediterranean where the Soviet fleet has displaced the Western ones, hawkers and whores are dismayed by the spartan conduct and serious demeanor of the Russian sailors...
...planes into the sea. In the air, bombers of the Soviet navy^s 750-plane, land-based air force continually test to see how close they can approach U.S. carriers before they are detected by radar and intercepted by the carrier's own planes. Their aim is to avoid being caught until they have got within 100 miles of the carrier. Reason: from that range, the Russians would have a good chance of scoring a hit with their air-to-ship missiles before the carrier could scramble fighters to shoot down their bombers...
...race track, apparently mixing with civilians to avoid detection. Allied mopping up around Saigon may have yielded an important catch. The government professed "80% certainty" that one enemy body found was that of North Vietnamese Major General Tran Do, 48, political chief and second deputy commander of the Liberation Army. A final fingerprint check was awaited to determine if it really...