Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the funds herein appropriated . . . may be expended to support directly or indirectly combat activities in or over Cambodia, Laos, North Viet Nam and South Viet Nam or off the shores of Cambodia, Laos, North Viet Nam and South Viet Nam by U.S. forces, and after Aug. 15, 1973, no other funds heretofore appropriated under any other Act may be expended for such purpose...
...South. In fact, the Communists did nothing to alleviate Thieu's fears that cease-fire or no, they were still determined to rule the South. Hanoi moved huge numbers of new troops into the South until overall Communist strength had grown by a startling 40%, to 220,000 combat troops at the start of the present offensive (the Viet Cong comprise only a small part of the Communist forces). The Communists turned muddy jungle supply trails into paved all-weather highways, and began sending their units hundreds of new weapons...
...noose that for months has dangled around Phnom-Penh's neck drew painfully tighter. To the southeast, 30 miles down the Mekong, the government lost its last two strongholds. After a siege of three months, the insurgents overpowered stubborn resistance, often in bloody, hand-to-hand combat, to capture the twin towns of Banam and Neak Luong. The victory freed some 4,000 Khmer Rouge troops who were reported to be making their way up the Mekong in sampans for the looming assault on the capital. To the east, the attackers overran several government positions to come within mortar...
...Communists had a poorly armed though well-trained and disciplined army of 1 million, recruited largely from the peasantry. The Nationalists, with 3 million combat troops and ready access to U.S. ships and aircraft, easily won the postwar race to reoccupy the one-third of China that had been under Japanese control. Yet, three years after the start of the civil war, Chiang was a refugee on Taiwan -vowing to recover the mainland with the help of 2 million Nationalist followers who had joined him on the island...
...typical of Teilhard's evolutionary optimism that he could find virtue even in human combat. "Through the present war," he wrote, "we have really progressed in civilization. To each phase of the world's development there corresponds a certain new profoundness of evil ... which integrates with the growing free energy for good...