Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Ex-Fighting Champion Rocky Marciano makes his acting debut as a G.I., as two German soldiers attempt to infiltrate American lines...
...army. But it was heartening to U.S. military observers, who on many past occasions had watched the government's troops refuse to press their attack. This time the relief column had stood its ground under the Viet Cong pounding and then moved in on the Reds in brutal combat...
Three chaotic years after intervening in the Congo, the U.N. military forces last week were packing up to leave. Under orders from Secretary General U Thant, the remaining 5,077 combat troops (already pared sharply from a peak of 19,000 since the final crushing of Katanga last January) are scheduled for departure by Dec. 31. The planned pull-out represents a victory for such intransigent opponents of the U.N. Congo operation as Russia and France. Chiefly because of the holdouts' refusal to help share the costs, the U.N. is $140 million in debt, and Thant...
...Taste for Babies. Though there are no immediate plans to use the scio-myzids in large-scale attacks on snail populations, Berg did send five dozen larvae by air mail to Hawaii. There they are being bred to combat a snail-borne liver-fluke disease that has been plaguing the Hawaiian cattle industry...
Having jailed most Buddhist leaders, the regime moved to silence other vocal opposition-Saigon's seething student population. In the city's crowded marketplace and near Saigon University, rifle-toting combat police in camouflage uniforms arrested all youths of high school and college age in sight and hauled them off to detention camps on the outskirts. Throughout the city, blue-uniformed members of Nhu's Republican Youth Organization made door-to-door calls, warning against public criticism of the government on pain of arrest. Schools were closed until further notice, and scheduled elections for the normally rubberstamp...