Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midweek, having absorbed scores of reports, having thoroughly discussed the worsening crisis with his advisers, Johnson gave orders that sent the first detachment of U.S. marines since 1916 into Caribbean combat. Summoning congressional leaders of both parties to the Cabinet Room, he explained that there were more than 2,000 Americans in the Dominican Republic, and there was no other way to guarantee their safety. "Our people have to be protected, and we intend to protect them," he said...
...Transport Specialist Boyd, 42, highly regarded for his outstanding performance at CAB?which he turned from a so-so agency into one of the best-run in Washington ?was going to be moved up. A Florida-born lawyer who logged more than 3,000 hours piloting troop carriers and combat planes in World War II, Boyd was first named to the CAB in 1959 by President Eisenhower. Two years later John Kennedy elevated him to chairman, a job to which he had been reappointed each year since...
...Even with the artillery and air support that was lacking at critical moments in Viet An, troops so weary could hardly be expected to perform with skill in the grinding day-in-day-out war. The only sure cure for battle fatigue is a transfusion of well-rested, eager combat troops like the 6,800 U.S. marines currently patrolling Danang airbase. Though the marines last week were finally blooded in their first real firefight with the Communists, they have yet to tangle with Viet Cong main force...
...white mercenaries in the Congo, but he asserted that the Congolese government "has every legal right" to employ them. He said U.S. military personnel in the Congo consist of some 200 men, mostly air transport crews, and that "we have absolutely no intention to engage U.S. forces in combat operations...
...each stop, about 200 residents--most of them children--greeted King wildly. At each stop, the heads of local parents' groups described efforts to combat school segregation or housing code violations. And at each stop, King warned the crowd that local problems must be solved by local organizations...