Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laos, there has been a buildup of the North Vietnamese forces that guard and repair the vital Ho Chi Minh Trail over which supplies are funneled to the South. The U.S. State Department last week expressed "some serious concern" over this buildup, but the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma has much more reason for concern. It reported that North Vietnamese forces had launched a "general offensive" against several government villages: Ban Nam Bac, north of the royal capital of Luang-prabang, and Lao Ngam and Phalane...
...years worrying about the possibility of an attack across its central front by the 89 Communist divisions poised in Eastern Europe. Last week, at the first meeting at NATO's new Brussels headquarters, the defense ministers of the 14 military allies had a new concern: the sudden Soviet buildup in the Mediterranean, on NATO's southern flank...
...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...
Producer David Merrick thought so -to the tune of an $800,000 investment, plus Hollywood's Vincente Minnelli to direct, plus a buildup for curvaceous Star Marisa Mell that included coverage in Vogue and McCall's. But Merrick was wrong. After a ludicrous Washington preview at which everything from the scenery to the sound system came apart at the seams, Mata Hari opened to lethal reviews...
...powers, the committee warned, "the American people will be threatened with tyranny or disaster." At the very least, it said, Congress should pause and consider before it approves anything like the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, which Johnson used as a mandate for the subsequent Viet Nam buildup. The resolution, sponsored at the time by Fulbright himself, expressed congressional "approval and support" of the President's determination "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression...