Word: border
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phase in the war. Westmoreland believes that allied troops have succeeded during 21 years of fighting in pushing the main body of Communist regulars to South Viet Nam's frontiers. Now, in response to the enemy's delaying action there, he has launched a new strategy of border battles aimed at keeping the large, organized units of invaders out of South Viet...
Chavez claimed that employers have an immense illegal source of scab labor in 18,000 Mexicans who cross the border every day as strikebreakers...
...North Vietnamese displayed fresh aggressiveness of their own. They once again attacked the Special Forces camp of Bu Dop, three miles from the Cambodian border, but were beaten off by 1st Infantry Division soldiers. North Vietnamese artillery and mortar units poured the heaviest fire on the U.S. Marine Demilitarized Zone outpost of Con Thien in more than a month-276 rounds in a single day. The U.S. also was monitoring a heavy buildup in Communist traffic coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos toward South Viet...
...pigs have already been slaughtered. Tractors pull the piles of carcasses to massive graves, and the pyres of burning animals nightly throw their smoke into the Shropshire sky. Soldiers and airmen have sprayed thousands of gallons of disinfectant on farms not yet hit by the plague, and at the border between infected and "clean" areas police prevent animals from crossing roads and carefully spray the tires of all passing vehicles in hopes of containing the epidemic. Horse racing and livestock shows have been canceled throughout the country. Many Britons will have a treeless Christmas because the government has closed down...
After three years of staggering losses that have earned it the dubious distinction of No. 1 money loser in West Germany, Salzgitter AG, the government-owned steel giant slumbering in the strip next to the East German border, is going to be shaken up. A plan approved by the Bonn Cabinet foresees mergers of its component parts with private industry and, if need be, the shutdown of unprofitable plants. In 1966, on sales of $800 million, Salzgitter suffered a net loss of $45 million...