Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharpen coordination between the 55,000 U.S. combat soldiers and Marines counterpoised for the enemy offensive in the I Corps Area, General Westmoreland last week dispatched his deputy commander and likely successor in Viet Nam, General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams Jr., to Phu Bai to set up a forward command post. Known as "the fightin'est man" in the U.S. Army, the World War II armored-cavalry commander, a West Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When...
Boutin, now Johnson's campaign chairman, sees apathy as the chief problem in attempting a write-in effort for an incumbent president. To combat apathy and to "educate the electorate," Boutin came up with the pledge card (which pledges the voter to "support President LBJ." It would "give the individual voter a personal identification with the President...and give us a good listing of the real Democratic voters in the State," Boutin explained...
...command. That mission accomplished, they turned to aid the South Vietnamese in rooting out the NVA, who reportedly were being guided and fed by Hué students. In the twisting alleyways of the old city, digging out the Communists turned out to be a tough task. After two days of combat, President Thieu phoned ARVN I Corps Commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam and demanded that he get Hué back in allied hands?and "get it back fast...
...first time since the U.S. committed itself to combat in Viet Nam, the Communist foot soldier was thus able to fight during the week with little fear of shells and bombs, rifleman .o rifleman. Giap knew that he would take huge losses, but he hoped that the cost in allied lives would also be great; he has long since proved that he considers one American life worth five of his own in the campaign to weary the U.S. of the war. That, too, characterized his war against the French, where at Dienbienphu he even budgeted 100% casualties?and took...
...figure in Hershey's decision to expand into other fields. With purchases of some 100,000 tons a year, Hershey is the largest U.S. buyer of cocoa, and in Ghana, the principal provider, scarce supplies have pushed prices up 200% in two years, to 30? a pound. To combat such price rises and increased wages for its 6,800 employees, Hershey has already chopped one-eighth of an ounce off its popular 5? bars. Yet, in spite of higher sales, earnings are off 17%. "It is rather unusual for our earnings to go down," says Mohler...