Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against a chemical film, causing it to discharge electrons. Boosted along by a 15,000-volt electrostatic field, those electrons smack into a phosphorcoated screen whose light then jars loose still another flock of electrons. The process is repeated three times, and the high-voltage electron acceleration, or energy buildup, produces a progressively brighter image. Besides the light, the only other power source is a tiny built-in battery for the electric field...
...series of Communist attempts at "spectaculars" over the coming months, to accompany the peace talks in Paris. They believe that next on the target list is the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands, where the Communists nearly cut Viet Nam in half just before the U.S. buildup in 1965. Within a month, the U.S. also expects another division-size thrust across the Demilitarized Zone, aimed at the Camp Carroll artillery base and perhaps sliding off toward Khe Sanh again. The allies anticipate more trouble for the Marine base at Danang, and within three months perhaps even another attempt...
...Communist buildup in the Highlands is already under way, seeping out from Laos toward the string of allied fire bases and such Special Forces camps as Dak To, where some of the bloodiest fighting of the war took place last fall. Moving in bad weather, North Vietnamese are filtering along the mountain ridges and positioning themselves close to Route 14, along which most of the 250,000 people in the Highlands live. Their aim is to capture Kontum and hold it for at least a while, thus scoring a propaganda victory; but they cannot begin to do that until they...
...frequently on Hyannis Port weekends, at Bobby's Hickory Hill seminars and often in White House inner sanctums. He was beside Kennedy in the Situation Room when the President won his terms on the limited test-ban treaty, urged Kennedy to publish photographic proof of the Cuban missile buildup and persuaded him, over Navy objections, to order a delay in intercepting Russian ships, thereby avoiding a direct confrontation with the Soviets. "It was a freak of history," he says of his influence then. "Those years proved to be the most rewarding of my life." They also instilled...
...July call is the lowest since the 11,400 of April, 1967. Draft calls rose sharply at the start of this year because so many men called in the Vietnam buildup two years ago were completing their compulsory service. That cycle has now been completed...