Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gemini spacecraft is being developed for commercial use, and its production of electricity from oxygen and hydrogen without burning hydrocarbons may be one answer to the smog problem that is increasing all over the world. Some scientists are already speculating about giant orbiting mirrors to light up a battlefield in Viet Nam or melt icebergs, free ice-locked harbors and shift storms from their natural courses. Weather control, to hear them tell it, is almost at hand...
...every war, disease far outranks combat wounds as a cause of casualties. The situation is no different in Viet Nam, where three out of every four hospitalized U.S. soldiers are sick rather than injured. Despite the fact that American battlefield medicine is the best in history, the illness rate remains high because an Iowa-born sergeant or a Georgia-born lieutenant has developed no immunity to the indigenous diseases of Viet Nam.* Worse still, there are occasional cases of disease that a U.S. trained Army doctor has never seen before...
Belatedly, the Germans are discovering that the U.S. is at least as much a Pacific as it is an Atlantic power?and that realization has led to fears that Americans would withdraw their troops or permit Germany to become an initial atomic battlefield in any war. The abandonment of the multilateral force and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's insistence that Germany buy huge amounts of military equipment from the U.S.?an insistence that helped to bring down the Erhard government?are galling. "We have bought so much U.S. military equipment," says one German official in Washington, "that...
...head any American still left alive. The other platoon was better positioned and fought on, calling napalm air strikes down to within 15 ft. of themselves on the charging enemy. The Communists caused heavy casualties before withdrawing, but they left 145 of their own dead on the battlefield. Still, it was one of the worst ambushes of Americans...
...Surely President Johnson is kidding when he says he can't understand why the Communists won't "agree to move from the battlefield to the conference table." Why should they come to the conference table when they have nothing to negotiate? If and when they get tired of fighting, they simply retire behind the 17th parallel. If they can't have victory, they accept nothing-not even defeat. We, on the other hand, will not accept defeat, and apparently refuse to go after victory. The Communist policy of "rule or ruin...