Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Kennedy was qualified in 1960, when he made the bid. And I think if you take into account the matter of the knowledge one should have of government, and the identification with the people of this country, and look at my record in both cases, on that broad base I think, even after the announcement this morning, that I'm still the best potential President in the field...
...strange-looking aircraft will wheel over Takhli Air Force Base in Thailand early this week, cock their delta-shaped wings forward like alighting eagles, then touch down with needle-nosed insouciance among the warplanes that almost daily raid North Viet Nam. They are the first combat-bound models of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber (originally, the TFX), contracted for six years ago under Robert McNamara to serve both the Air Force and the Navy. Takhli's new planes will be F-111 As, the Air Force model, which will be tested in bombing runs over North...
Quietly and secretly, technicians at Fort Knox, Ky., loaded an estimated $450 million worth of gold ingots onto a heavily armed convoy. The convoy proceeded to a nearby U.S. Air Force base, where the gold was loaded aboard a transport plane and flown to Britain...
...charge of the government's anticorruption drive is Premier Nguyen Van Loc, a Saigon lawyer with no administrative experience, no political base of his own-and a Cabinet under him teeming with powerful generals. So weak is Loc's position that the truculent National Assembly, unable to muster enough votes to attack Thieu directly, was narrowly persuaded last week to drop a no-confidence vote against Loc. Still, on Loc's orders, Vietnamese courts have tried 32 South Viet namese servicemen and eight civilians on charges of embezzlement of government funds, bribery and associated crimes. All have...
...Navy and Air Force jets managed an average of 85 strikes a day against North Viet Nam, twice hitting a vital railroad-highway bridge and power plant in the port city of Haiphong. U.S. planes also kept up relentless pressure on the Communists surrounding the besieged U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh, though 100 to 300 rounds of mortar and rocket fire continued to pour into the garrison each day. Last week the Marines...