Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True to the fever of the season, this violent outburst was run by the N.A.A.C.P.-normally a mild-tempered organization. Herbert Hill, national labor secretary for the association, made it clear that things had changed: "The arena of combat for the N.A.A.C.P. has shifted from the courtroom to direct mass action." And he snapped that there would soon be big protests over job discrimination in Boston, St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and New York...
...threatened to halt the government's helicopter airlift campaign, which had been the most effective offensive tactic against the Red guerrillas. Reluctantly the top U.S. military brass, which had long been skeptical that a helicopter could ever be a deadly offensive weapon, threw the newly-arrived Hueys into combat. Their mission: to escort and protect the troop-carrying copters...
...Huey escorts. Since last October, the Hueys have flown 3,600 sorties, fired 1,800 rockets and 200,000 rounds of machine-gun ammunition, and killed countless hundreds of Reds. Two enlisted men of the company (whose official military designation is Utility Tactical Transport Company) have been killed in combat, and 19 other members of the 113-man unit have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Today U.S. military officials estimate that, although the Viet Cong has doubled its antiaircraft effort in the past year, the troop-carrying choppers are suffering 25% fewer hits than before the Hueys arrived...
...explanatory literature each week through all the local churches. These people have never been exposed to the idea that community activity can mean social progress. It is this simple notion--that progress is possible but can only be achieved through cooperation--that an integrationist group must get across to combat the attitude, constantly reiterated by the local Negroes themselves, that "we people can never stick together, or get anywhere in the white man's world...
...Force jet transport eased onto central Thailand's Korat airstrip from Hawaii last week and deposited 69 U.S. combat troops in battle dress. They were the advance unit of the two U.S. Army battle groups scheduled to participate in next month's SEATO maneuvers involving 25,000 troops from Thailand, the U.S., France, Britain, Pakistan and the Philippines. At SEATO headquarters in Bangkok, the purpose of the exercise was explained: "The operation supposes that out of tense conditions near the border of Thailand an enemy force crosses into this country in open aggression...