Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shining example of what life can be like under a proper, representative government." Also, though Hanoi may be approaching the limit of its ability to aid Communist forces in the South, there is still no assurance that it might not, as it has before, match a U.S. buildup by sending in more troops, restoring the status quo ante...
...approve one more division for Viet Nam-a choice that would cause minimal dislocations both in the U.S. and South Viet Nam. Whether to go beyond that is in many ways the toughest decision he has had to make since he committed the U.S. to the original Viet Nam buildup two years...
...gibes. Everyone was quick to recall how France had continued to supply arms to Israel right up to the moment that fighting began-and perhaps well after. And even as President De Gaulle decried world tensions, his high-pressure salesmen were doing their best to contribute to another arms buildup-this one in Latin America of all places-by trying to sell their newest antitank missiles and supersonic jets to Peru...
Hardly a Crater. Streaking in ahead of the dawn, the first waves of Israeli Mirage3 fighter-bombers simultaneously destroyed four Egyptian airbases in the Sinai Peninsula, site of Nasser's massive buildup against Israel in the past month. Some 200 of Nasser's frontline fighters, mostly Russian-built MIG-21s, were caught and destroyed on the ground. At almost the same time, Israeli jets hit Arab bases in Jordan, Syria and Iraq. They swept in from the sea to hit Egyptian bases deeper inside Egypt; and after landing only long enough to refuel, they hammered away until...
Once Egypt's troops were all in place, facing some 30,000 Israeli troops across the border, the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram began the process of face saving short of armed conflict. It announced that with its buildup Egypt had "reached its objectives" and felt "compelled at this stage to stop at what it has accomplished so far, even if this means that we wait to receive a blow from Israel...