Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, the Communists were trying to get the jump on the country's new military leader, Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, before he could get his own campaign organized. Minh and his fellow generals have assigned aggressive new officers to combat commands, but their forces have not regained the momentum against the Viet Cong...
...COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Denise Darcel shields a wounded Ameri can soldier...
...Navy is also upset by the seeming success of the massive "Operation Big Lift" that moved an Army division from the U.S. to Europe by air. Declares one top officer: "If they really think they can airlift a division into combat, or near combat, then the day of the Navy is over...
...Chancellor, Erhard's primary task will be to case these fears. To combat the rhetoric of his political opponents who decry his "soft line," he will have to become a political leader. He seems unwilling to move in this direction. Erhard prefers delegating responsibility to Adensuer's method of one-man rule. He has given added freedom to his ministers, which will inevitably allow them to sound off more frequently...
...Correspondent David Halberstam and another correspondent received a slip of paper the night before with the message: "Please buy me one bottle of whisky at the PX." It was a prearranged signal meaning that a coup might be imminent. While Saigon was still at lunch, thousands of men in combat garb were gathering just outside the city, buckling on equipment, checking their weapons, listening to last-minute instructions for the violent overthrow of the government...