Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sagging fortunes under Sato. The retiring Premier had hoped that his final years in office would vindicate the policies he and his predecessors had followed for more than two decades. Those policies were based upon total dependence on U.S. leadership in foreign affairs and total devotion to the buildup of Japanese industry at home...
...quiet American buildup in Vietnamese waters (from 18,000 men to 42,000), in Thailand (from 32,000 to 45,000) and along the supply lines toward Saigon (about 15,000 in Japan, the Philippines, Guam and Okinawa) reflects the changing U.S. role in Viet Nam. By September, only about 1,000 U.S. troops will be in ground-combat roles, and their task will be solely to protect American installations supplying South Vietnamese armed forces. The main thrust of the present American effort is in bombing, though Nixon was careful to note at his press conference last week that South...
...fairly clear plus. Though a great deal depends on how the Soviets behave, the U.S. does not appear to have lost anything of substance, at least for now. It has, in fact, scored some important gains: a stop in the recent rapid Soviet offensive buildup, including a halt in the production of the fearsome SS-9s and any later systems...
...August 1971, Lavelle took command of all U.S. Air Force units in the Viet Nam conflict. Nervous, not very personable, he nonetheless was respected for his tenacious concern for the welfare of his men. When he arrived, the North Vietnamese were well along within their borders on the massive buildup for last April's all-out offensive. Lavelle's air reconnaissance crews provided a regular flow of reports and photographs chronicling its progress. A veteran Air Force "tiger" who flew 76 combat missions in World War II, Lavelle, 55, decided he could not sit idly by while Hanoi...
...EVEN isolated good satire can't hold together a disappointingly anticlimactic novel. DeLillo's buildup of suspense finally dissipates totally; many ominous hints are lost or forgotten by the end. End Zone is neither a thriller nor a mystery, and it shouldn't matter if I tell you that Gary, inspired to heights of asceticism by Coach Creed's commendation of humiliation of the flesh, comes very close to death by self-starvation at season's end. And there the novel ends, an enticing, finely ironic, but unfinished gloss to Eliot's lines on the end of the world...