Word: combate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step in reducing hostilities since, like the oft-violated Jet truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea, arguing that it would provide an ideal opportunity for the forces freed from combat to root out Viet Cong political agents in rural areas. The Viet Cong, of course, might see exactly the same opportunity to clean out government representatives...
Cioran contends that the only common ground between men-believers and nonbelievers alike-is the illogical temptation to exist, to resist the acceptance of nothingness. The difficult duty of man then becomes to combat both his doubts and certitudes, and to hurl himself toward a silent, detached state of unreason. He sees the philosopher's task not as pointing out the truth but rather as showing the way toward freedom through acceptance of futility, the only tenable stance for the conscious man. "After the banality of the abyss, what miracles in being!" Cioran writes. "To exist is a habit...
...Boats, bristling with machine guns, grenade launchers and a cannon, are able to go to the rescue. Wounded are picked up and shuttled away from enemy fire, then quickly evacuated on "dust-off" helicopters to the nearest U.S. hospital. In the festering Delta, such swift care of combat wounds often spells the difference between life and death...
After every bombing by the B-52s, everyone, from cadre to soldier, became nervous, worried and afraid. This exerted a tremendous influence on the fighting morale. Because they fought the fear of the B-52s in their minds, they weakened after combat and were more tense. Many of them did not want to go far away from the trenches because by remaining in the trenches there was some hope of preserving their lives...
...Worley, 48, deputy commander of the American Seventh Air Force and the third American general to die in Viet Nam; when his RF-4C Phantom jet was hit by enemy ground fire while on a reconnaissance mission; near Hué. A longtime fighter pilot with World War II combat experience in the Italian and Pacific theaters, Worley was one of the Air Force's youngest and most promising leaders. He had been in operational command of Air Force ground-support and tactical bombing in the two Viet Nams, and was scheduled to leave for Hawaii this month to become...