Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right, who without bloodshed brought his country to independence. But privately they seem to have written off Malawi as a candidate for membership in the East African community of free states, and anything they have to say about President Banda will probably be said on the battlefield from now on. The controversy is now at the boiling point...
...port of Sihanoukville, where Jacqueline Kennedy only a few weeks ago with much éclat dedicated a new Avenue J. F. Kennedy. Then the supplies, particularly ammunition, are trucked along the U.S. aid-built highway to Pnompenh, whence they are moved east to South Viet Nam and into the battlefield...
...past, and he is just starting out on his mission. Lunacy is the order of the day: staff officers exchange bubble-gum cards in the heat of conflict. An ex-cavalry colonel shoots his disabled tank. When a man is wounded, his wife abruptly appears on the battlefield. "It hurts," he groans, looking at his shattered legs. "Run 'em under the cold tap, luv," she advises. Real blood spurts from fictitious wounds. After soldiers die, they return to the ranks-for complex symbolic purposes-eerily uniformed not in khaki but in orange, green or blue...
...against North Viet Nam, "perhaps more than 800,000 additional U. S. troops, at a cost of $75 billion over what we have spent," might have been needed to maintain the war at its cur rent level-and, of course, "we would have suffered many more casualties on the battlefield." McConnell argued that American bombing could have been more effective if it had been less "gradual." "It was the second of March 1965," he reminisced, "and we recommended what we called a sharp, sudden blow which would have paralyzed the enemy's capability. That was disapproved as a concept...
...instance, perform both as a backup to the nation's regular armed forces and as a kind of superstate police force-when both jobs require sophisticated skills and equipment undreamed of even a decade ago? To equip both Guard and Reserve units for modern battlefield conditions would cost no less than $10 billion. Should Guard units be brought more tightly under federal control, so that officers, who now are often deeply involved in state politics, have to meet uniform standards of competence? So far, Congress has resisted any suggestion that it look into these and other Guard problems...