Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Melvin Laird, in talks with newsmen, conceded that it would take some time to prove just how much the foray had accomplished. "We're going to know by the end of June," Rogers told a press conference. "See where we are in July and August," said Laird. As battlefield action in Cambodia sharpened -the venture had cost 140 American lives through last week-Laird and Rogers tried to accentuate the peaceful. Laird predicted that by July 1971 South Vietnamese rather than Americans would be handling all the major combat in Viet Nam. Both men reaffirmed the Administration...
...historic commitment. Burt Pines was already trailing Vietnamese armored units in his TIME & LIFE Jeep. As troops rolled into Prasaut, 20 miles across the border, Pines breakfasted with III Corps Commander Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, who invited him along for a helicopter inspection of the battlefield...
...replace violence as the benediction of the gods. The just, peaceful order of the community accompanies the reconciliation of male will with female fruition. Aeschylus introduces the distrust of violence. Eventually, the gods will dissolve sufficiently so that the power of action gives way to that of moral perception. Battlefield gives place to City. The great transformation of the heroic from the Hiad to the Orestcia to the Elizabethan Renaissance, was from Fate to Law to Reason...
...division's battlefield responsibilities, centered over an 880-sq.-mi. area north of Saigon in III Corps, were assumed largely by South Viet Nam's Fifth Division. Much of the Big Red One's equipment, including 27,000 weapons, 4,500 Jeeps and trucks and 500 artillery pieces, was handed over to the South Vietnamese and other U.S. units. As the pull-out date neared, nonessential supplies all but disappeared. The base PX ran out of everything but men's swim trunks. Two "massage" parlors and the Crossroads Bar just outside the main base, foreseeing...
Died. Vera Brittain, 75, British pacifist and author; of pneumonia; in Wimbledon, England. A World War I battlefield nurse who lost her brother and fiance in the trenches, Miss Brittain lectured widely and wrote with the passion of experience in her descriptive, often brutal, antiwar writings-most notably Testament of Youth, an account of her conversion to pacifism, which was published...