Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Nixon's camp has polls showing him a winner over Humphrey in Illinois, he does not have the horsepower needed to pull enough downstate Republicans to offset the Democratic stronghold of Cook County. A tendency to vote against incumbents could reverse the trend, however, and give the state to Nixon. Ohio's big cities are heavily blue-collar, and though labor's votes are growing less predictable, they should give the edge to the Democrats. As in Illinois, many G.O.P. officials in Ohio prefer Rockefeller as a man who could cut sharply into the Democratic hold...
...most serious problem, as both Che and Castro make clear, was the hostility of Bolivia's Communist Party and its secretary-general, Mario Monje, to the idea of guerrilla warfare. From the day he arrived in disguise on the deserted cattle ranch that served as the guerrilla base camp, Che was faced with the task of trying to impose his strict martial control on a group that had violated its own party discipline by joining his forces. Castro, in his introduction, bitterly accuses Monje of sabotaging the whole campaign with his "chauvinism and sterile reactionary sentiment...
...area that they consider already "liberated"-they have ordered their forces to establish "G.I. killing belts" around U.S. installations. Near the tiny Vietnamese militia outposts, their favorite ploy is to use loudspeakers to sympathize with men "drafted for an unjust cause" and invite them to move out of the camp...
...argument about the Khe Sanh strategy will probably continue as long as the Vietnamese war is remembered. Khe Sanh had been a U.S. Special Forces camp, with the task of blocking and monitoring infiltration routes from the North. When the enemy started to besiege the camp, that function was rendered impossible. The U.S. nonetheless poured in troops, building up to some 5,700 U.S. Marines and a 500-man South Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The Marines were not anxious to make a stand there: they sat at the end of a 27-mile supply line on Communist-interdicted Highway...
...that could not withstand a direct artillery hit, encircled by North Vietnamese who held most of the high ground, continuously dazed by rocket and 130-and 152-mm. artillery barrages that dumped up to 1,500 rounds a day into the base. North Vietnamese trenches fingered up to the camp's defensive wire. Rats infested the bunkers. Supply planes had to feel their way through rain and clouds and all-too-accurate antiaircraft fire; the hulks of downed aircraft lined the runwav...