Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with conventional weapons. In other words, nuclear stalemate can deter big wars but not little wars. To lessen the U.S.'s reliance on what the late John Foster Dulles called "massive retaliatory power," the Kennedy Administration has built up the U.S.'s conventional military forces, increasing Army combat divisions from 11 to 16 and Air Force tactical wings from...
...Road Builders. As the diplomats talked, the Pentagon was quietly flexing its muscles. Units of the U.S. Seventh Fleet began cruising in the South China Sea, and though the move had been planned for months, Washington picked last week to announce that two combat-ready battle groups would soon move into Thailand to take part in next month's full-scale SEATO battle maneuvers. It was reminiscent of the crash buildup of troop strength in Thailand just a year ago, when the last serious flare-up in Laos took place. Left behind when these troops were withdrawn were enough...
Apart from the combat troops, some 2,600 other U.S. military personnel-chiefly engineers and signal troops-are in Thailand. Near the Laotian border, a U.S. Army construction battalion is nearing completion of an all-weather jet airstrip...
...essentially military-of six divisions." Miro insists that this was a specific invasion pledge and that the exiles would be part of the operation. "I left the White House with the certainty that there was approaching the liberation of the fatherland with the Cuban presence in the vanguard of combat," wrote Miro grandly. But then came disillusion. "The struggle for Cuba is in the process of being liquidated by the Government," Miro concluded. "The U.S. of North America has been the victim of a master play by the Russians...
...study group to chart new ways to lure back readers, is planning to bring out a remodeled paper soon with the same appearance but a greater depth and variety of coverage and "a new tone which will be saisissant." Parisien Libere is experimenting with special suburban editions to combat burgeoning local dailies. To reduce the temptation of payola for Paris reporters (average salary: $300 a month), the publishers have approved pay increases...