Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, reported Correspondent Robins, constantly prodded Katanga's civilian populace to fight against the U.N. "Bring out your guns, spears, knives, axes and clubs, and kill all the U.N. to combat the murder campaign of Secretary-General U Thant and his international minions!" demanded a government proclamation. Cried Radio Katanga: "Please attack the United Nations dogs!'' But things were not all serious. Radio Katanga also played "victory" cha cha chas. And after the heat of battle was over one day, most of the Katangese officers, chewing their entrecôtes de veau and pommes frites...
...Allow seven-man teams (four Vietnamese, three Americans) to investigate Communist-infested areas and determine within three months what local steps can be taken to combat Red infiltration of the countryside...
Students, though avowedly communist, show the same lack of commitment to dogma, both speakers agreed. Kennedy commended the Political Institute in Costa Rica, a school educating the democratically oriented in an attempt to "strengthen their ideology and train them to organize parties that can combat the communists...
...happens, one fine former combat officer is the current hero of almost all the rightest groups. He is Major General Edwin A. Walker, 52, who resigned from the Army last month after being transferred from his command in West Germany under charges of indoctrinating his troops with John Birch pamphlets and attempting to influence his men to cast absentee ballots for conservative U.S. political candidates. Questioned by an Army inspector general, Walker declined to answer certain questions, pleading that he was protected by Article 31 of the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice-which, like the Fifth Amendment...
Cruising offshore was the U.S.S. Princeton with 1,300 combat-ready marines aboard. Admiral John H. Sides, Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet, was in Saigon, en route, he said, to Thailand. Asked if it were true that much of the Seventh Fleet was already in Vietnamese waters, the admiral replied: "The center of gravity of the Seventh Fleet is always near a troubled area...