Word: combate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear that by holding the plane the Russians could scuttle talks with the U.S. On the other hand, their release of 214 Americans for combat would invite a propaganda cudgeling from China, ever eager to berate Moscow for betraying its allies in Hanoi. In the end, both sides displayed an encouragingly sophisticated, fresh approach to defusing the danger. Next day, Thompson was handed a curt protest note. Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet...
Real Pros. Almost invariably, the morale of activated reservists and Guardsmen depends on whether they believe their duty really helps national security. Already, 3,375 have been sent overseas; it would be hard to find more gung-ho outfits anywhere than four Air Guard squadrons mobilized straight into combat in Viet Nam. "Nobody's got a bitch about being here," claims Captain Thomas Risan, an airline pilot now bombing and strafing Viet Cong fortifications with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Phan Rang. Calling themselves the "Raggedy-Ass Militia of Happy Valley," the 25 pilots and 350 maintenance crewmen...
Even the little triumphs were short-lived. Bolivia's stolid Indian peasantry, whom Che expected to join the revolution, did not respond: "The mass of peasants does not help us at all and has become informers." Che watched some of his most loyal followers fall in combat, get separated from others and cut off from supplies by the army's ever-tightening clamp. "This type of struggle gives us the opportunity not only to turn ourselves into revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species, but it also allows us to graduate as men," he wrote on Aug. 8, still...
...duty. Now in the first stages of training as a loadmaster for C-123 transport planes, President Johnson's younger son-in-law will eventually be charged with loading and dumping out supplies to troops in the field-an assignment that may take him into the thick of combat...
Despite its complexity, the Twister is relatively easy to maneuver. Developed to meet the need for a rugged, readily transportable combat machine, it could carry men and weapons on the variety of battlefields likely to be encountered in limited warfare. Not only is it more agile than most tanks, say the engineers, but it can also press on even if one engine fails or several tires are punctured. Lockheed recently negotiated a $3,000,000 contract with the Pentagon for the production of test vehicles. Though their design is military, Twisters might eventually be used by construction men, explorers...