Word: calle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attack & Attack!" The Communist tactics puzzle U.S. strategists, who wonder how long the North can sustain them. Says one high officer: "In our terms we would call it desperate, but I give the Communists far more credit in their planning and thinking than to tag their actions as desperate." In the past, enemy units have refrained from attacking until they had spent weeks planning the battle and scouting the fortifications, and then they took the initiative only when they had a fair chance of winning. Now all that has changed. Documents captured after one battle detailed orders to "attack...
...negotiate peace in Viet Nam-any time, anywhere. But so far, the possible terms for a settlement have been discussed in only the most general way. President Johnson has said that South Viet Nam should be guaranteed peace, independence and democracy-the same conditions that the Viet Cong tirelessly call for. Senator William Fulbright speaks of neutralization and mutual withdrawal by U.S. and North Vietnamese forces. Senator Eugene McCarthy speaks rather broadly of withdrawing to strongpoints, reducing military operations and trying to negotiate. Such veteran cold warriors as Henry Cabot Lodge and Dean Acheson, arguing that the only riskless settlement...
...fairly stirring call to arms. Unfortunately, few Greeks heard it. Constantine had lacked the foresight-or the troops-to seize control of a regular radio station, and his message went out only on a weak short-wave station that was almost inaudible in Athens...
...defense chiefs in Brussels authorized the creation of a flotilla of destroyers that will be on constant call to speed to any crisis in the Atlantic area. And the ministers finally laid to rest the old doctrine of immediate massive nuclear retaliation in case of a Soviet ground attack. They officially adopted a strategy that has actually been the policy of NATO field commanders since it was first propounded in 1962 by Defense Secretary Robert
...ever got around to starring Katharine Hepburn, 60, in a musical-possibly for the same reason that no composer has yet written a concerto for duck call. Now the oversight is to be remedied in sensational fashion. Kate has been signed for the title role in next season's Coco, an oversized Broadway musical about Couturiere Coco Chanel that will have a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Andre Previn, and a tab of $500,000. The musical, gestating since 1959, was supposed to star Rosalind Russell, but she got entangled in movie commitments...