Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency is a step toward the big-time. YR execs often harbor a desire to run for office eventually, or to have an influence with those who do. That many past presidents of the club today staff large law firms of unknown names indicates the probable lack of base for this hope...
...Crater with a View. The V.C. first opened up with mortars on the U.S. base, then sent snipers scurrying under cover of the moonless night into the camp's very midst to sow confusion. Then, from north and south, the Communists charged in force. The big U.S. 155-mm. guns were lowered to fire pointblank, and cooks and headquarters clerks joined the gun crews in manning the defense. U.S. planes, directed by Sergeant Mark Ridley of San Antonio, soon swept in to blast the attackers. When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol...
...allied positions. In one, the North's rocketeers fired 24 Russianmade 122-mm. projectiles at Danang Airbase, destroying one F-4 Phantom jet and two spotter planes and heavily damaging five other craft. But there were no allied deaths, and within hours the runways were repaired and the base fully operative again. In another attack, some 5,000 Communists tried to overrun two U.S. forward positions in the Que Son Valley south of Danang. They were thrown back in two days of heavy fighting, losing nearly 400 dead. Altogether, by week's end the Communists had sacrificed...
...average without regard to the source of funds. Anxious not to deal the British pound another blow, the President in his edict allowed U.S. business investment in the U.K., Canada, Australia and oil-producing countries up to a maximum of 65% of the 1965-66 base period. On top of that, U.S. companies were ordered to reduce foreign bank balances to their 1965-66 average and to repatriate at least 65% of their European profits. The order, affecting about 1,000 U.S. firms, will be enforced by a new Commerce Department Office of Foreign Direct Investment. Violators face criminal prosecution...
...hundred people with very little power. And we must not confuse the change inside each of us, important though that may be, with the change that we have yet to bring about in this country and the world. Neither the Revelation nor the Revolution is at hand, and to base our hopes and plans on them would be a tragic blunder...