Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy service. In October 1966, in a Mekong River backwater, Williams led two patrol boats into a mass of sampans and junks loaded with Viet Cong troopers. Outnumbered and outgunned, the patrol sank 28 sampans, damaged 25 more and captured six enemy vessels. >Richard A. Pittman, 22, is a civilian now. Back in July 1966, as a Marine lance corporal, he traded his rifle for a machine gun and rushed forward to help buddies in trouble near the Demilitarized Zone. Pittman singlehanded faced an assault by more than 30 North Vietnamese. His ammunition gone, he grabbed a Communist weapon, then...
...government bill under discussion in the Bundestag that provided for the curtailment of constitutional guarantees during a national emergency. Under the law, the Bundestag would be able to declare a "state of emergency," permitting the government to: 1) draft men over 18 who are eligible for military service into civilian defense units, 2) draft women up to age 55 into "hospital" units, 3) order persons to remain at their jobs, 4) requisition private vehicles, and 5) engage in wiretapping and interception of mail when there is a "justified" suspicion of treason...
Harrowing Operation. Some 5,000 North Vietnamese troops closed in on the Kham Due outpost astride Route 14 about 70 miles from Kontum. The post was defended by 1,300 allied soldiers; most of them were civilian irregulars, reinforced by a U.S. Marine artillery platoon and an element of the U.S. 196th Light Infantry Brigade. Kham Due shaped up as the kind of set-piece battle that General William Westmoreland yearned for in the early days of the massive U.S. presence in Viet Nam, when so much of his military force was expended in fruitless hunts for an enemy refusing...
Addressing the nation on television and radio, dressed in an open-necked set of fatigues without insignia, Thieu named as new Premier Tran Van Huong, 64, one of the most popular and respected civilian politicians in South Viet Nam. A grey-haired schoolteacher renowned for his rigid honesty, Huong was twice mayor of Saigon and briefly Premier in 1964-65. He ran for President of the new civilian government last fall, and finished fourth-but handily carried the city of Saigon...
Paper-Clip Building. IDA was founded in 1956, after the loint Chiefs of Staff discovered that it did not have enough civilian experts to study all its weapons problems. The Institute, which is headed by General Maxwell Taylor, now employs 575 full-time civilian analysts in a high-arched, eleven-story building (dubbed "the paper-clip building") in Washington plus 50 communications experts housed in a Princeton campus building leased by IDA. Government agencies request IDA for specific research help; this year the Institute is handling 100 projects costing...