Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shelling of the cities came after a week in which the Communists had undergone little but setbacks. In I Corps' eastern part, allied forces turned back a North Vietnamese attack aimed at overrunning the U.S. Marine supply base of Dong Ha and fought a series of major battles around the city of Hue. In western I Corps, an allied force slashed through the North Vietnamese army's longtime sanctuary and storehouse in the A Shau Valley...
...liaison" headed by Ambassador to the U.S. Bui Diem. Saigon broke off relations with France in 1965 after De Gaulle offered one piece of advice too many about the war, but it is represented in Paris by a consul general; he can provide the mission with a convenient base. If the talks seem to be getting somewhere, the number of South Vietnamese observers is likely to swell to some 20. Though they will not take part in the talks, they presumably will be briefed by the U.S. negotiators...
...Role. On the U.S. side, the biggest initial problems were logistical, the number of troops available and the lack of U.S. troops' experience in a counterinsurgency environment. To build a logistical base to support over half a million men has been a herculean task. We now have six instead of one deep-water ports, eight instead of three jet-capable airfields. Air supply has been developed until I am sure it is the most efficient in history. As far as troop strength is concerned, we had to use fire-brigade tactics until late 1966, when we were strong enough...
...country is a crossroads of racial bitterness. Black-nationalist guerrillas use it as a base for raids on the neighboring white supremacist regimes in Rhodesia and Southwest Africa. In turn, white agents infiltrate the country to spy on them. Zambia's 3,800,000 blacks resent the white minority of about 65,000, many of whom are Rhodesian and South African citizens who still hold the managerial jobs...
Ideally, every city should be a closed loop, like a space capsule in which astronauts reconstitute even their own waste. This concept is at the base of the federally aided "Experimental City" being planned by Geophysicist Athelstan Spilhaus, president of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, who dreams of solving the pollution problem by dispersing millions of Americans into brand-new cities limited to perhaps 250,000 people on 2,500 acres of now vacant land. The pilot city, to be built by a quasi-public corporation, will try everything from reusable buildings to underground factories and horizontal elevators to eliminate...