Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a Communist-led military revolt at Yosu, Park, then a captain, was court-martialed and sentenced to life imprisonment, only to be pardoned and discharged. When the Korean war broke out, he was recalled but never given a combat command...
...signal of a high pitched blast on a cowrie studded war horn the young men, the "samari," (warriors who have reached full puberty, been initiated into the tribe, but are still unmarried), the hope of the future and the finest physical specimens available, met, and joined, if not in combat, then certainly in the nearest thing to it short of actual warfare...
Active U.S. military participation in the fighting (some G. I. "advisers" are now flying actual combat missions) has dispelled American belief that the guerillas are foreign subversives who terrorize the population into supporting them. General Paul D. Harkins, head of the U.S. military command in South Vietnam, emphasized in a speech last spring that the "guerrillas obviously are not being reinforced or supplied systematically from North Vietnam, China, or any place else. They depend for weapons primarily upon whatever they can capture; many are homemade...
...original civil rights bill should have included a section giving the Justice Department the statutory power to file suite whenever civil liberties are violated. Police brutality has become the greatest evil in the civil rights struggle in the South, he said, and such power is the best way to combat...
...military program can be completed by the end of 1965 and that 1,000 American personnel can be withdrawn by the end of this year. Congressmen should insist that the withdrawal of 1,000 U.S. personnel within the year, followed by regular withdrawals scheduled to remove all combat troops by the end of 1965, be the test of whether the war can be won. If this schedule cannot be met, the United States can only lost by staying...