Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suribachi. I think you have done the U.S. Navy an injustice. One of the flag raisers, who survived the bloody battle and was medically discharged in 1945, was Pharmacist's Mate Second Class John Henry Bradley, U.S.N. He was serving as a hospital corpsman attached to a Marine combat unit. In view of the outstanding job these hospital corpsmen have done in the past, it seems only proper, from a Marine point of view, that one of them should have been represented in this heroic and memorable...
...Candidate Walker, he was an excellent combat officer. He had a distinguished record in World War II and Korea, commanded 101st Airborne Division and National Guard troops during the Little Rock school crisis. Last year, as commander of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany, he put on a troop indoctrination program that got him in hot water. In speeches he labeled Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Dean Acheson as "definitely pink." His "pro-blue" instruction program urged troops to vote for conservative candidates back home. Officially admonished and transferred to a command in Hawaii, Walker bitterly resigned from...
Schwarz starts with the laudable premise that Americans should be informed about Communism; if they understand it, they will be better able to combat it. "In the battle against Communism, there is no substitute for accurate, specific knowledge. Ignorance is evil and paralytic." Schwarz therefore sets out to inform-and in some ways he succeeds admirably. In his book, his treatment of such a difficult subject as dialectical materialism is a model of instructive popularization...
Inviting foreign newsmen to visit Macassar, Indonesia's invasion headquarters in the Celebes, Sukarno saw to it that the streets were draped with banners proclaiming in plain English: WE WILL GIVE OUR LIVES FOR IRIAN BARAT. No less clear to Western correspondents was the combat unreadiness of ill-fed, ill-disciplined, ill-conditioned infantrymen who, as one put it, "seemed exhausted after a 30-minute demonstration that would scarcely have tired a Finch College hockey team...
...given Diem $2 billion in economic and military aid. Since last fall, the buildup has included 56 large helicopters. The U.S. now has 3,600 men in South Viet Nam, piloting planes, tending war dogs used for combat patrols, training Diem's 170,000-man army in anti-guerrilla tactics. Ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet patrol the South China Sea to prevent Red infiltration by junk and sampan. U.S. special forces are on the way to beef up Diem's military intelligence, communications and logistics...