Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those boys down south and they never come back. And they're doing no better in the war." One U.S. observer insisted that Hanoi can rely on only six of every ten men sent south to fight; the rest defect, including an even larger number of North Vietnamese civilian administrators, or melt into the jungle. The growing rate of defections, moreover, leads to better allied intelligence-a major factor in recent months in blunting Communist offensives...
...trio's exploits began in April 1967. Master Sergeant Wolf-Diethard Knope, a Luftwaffe Starfighter pilot, Josef Linowski, a Polish-born civilian, and Manfred Ramminger, another civilian, worked together to steal a navigational device from the Zell airbase in southern Germany. Ramminger then casually packed it in his suitcase and flew off to Moscow to deliver his prize. That, however, was a mere warm-up for their big operation...
...will also have to take a hard look at our nation's critical civilian needs, especially in our cities. A temporary extension of part of the tax surcharge, clearly marked for those purposes, should not be ruled out. I would want to give the Congress and the public a clear-cut choice between quicker tax reduction and quicker action on the unrelenting problems of poverty, squalor, crime, and injustice in our cities...
...Months in the planning, "C-day" broke bright and early across South Viet Nam. U.S. command posts received coded radio instructions while most troops were still asleep, promptly ordered all personnel to muster for an alert. Base commanders dismissed Vietnamese civilian employees for the day and sealed off installations to ail outsiders. "We needed a period of limited combat activity," said Colonel Melvin E. Richmond, the man who oversaw the mission. "Operational requirements dictated the timing...
Born. To Colonel Pavel Popovich, 38, Soviet cosmonaut, who became part of the world's first space duet in 1962 when his Vostok IV rocketed into orbit along with the capsule carrying Major Andrian Nikolayev; and Maria Popovich, 37, a civilian pilot: their second daughter; in Moscow...