Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inside" reports, purporting to prove that nuclear warfare was imminent at Khesanh. Claiming that nuclear weapons were already being stored in Thailand, a University of California professor said last week that "for the first time since World War II, the United States is planning to use nuclear weapons in combat...
...Vietnam war has already been criticized as a "black man's war" and twice as many Negroes as whites have died in combat. Realizing that criticism was sure to accompany a plan that would draft a greater proportion of Negroes, the President decided that retaining oldest first was the most politically sound move. Graduate students have already been attacked for their privileged deferred status, and he realized that drafting them was least likely to provoke widespread criticism outside the academic community. So far he has been right...
...this happy note, it behooves me to relate the story of one group as muted discouragement to those seniors perceiving in the Peace Corps a painless and sureproof escape from military combat in Vietnam...
...however, that when it comes to controlling the country-side, this can be done only by infantry troops with riflles going out and winning an area and then controlling it and keeping it. And he said that the enormous gains of the firepower were lost in this kind of combat. He pointed out that the rifle of the N.L.F. soldier was just as effective as the rifle of the American. Even more, he pointed out that the N.L.F. soldier generally knew the terrain he was fighting in; it was friendly to him, whereas it was foreign to the American soldier...
...effort to build good will with potential American passengers, West Germany's Lufthansa airline last week pledged to do its bit to combat the U.S. balance of payments problem. "Effective immediately," the airline announced, "Lufthansa will keep all dollar revenues in the U.S.A...