Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Successful Simplicity. As his field commander, McNamara has chosen husky Brigadier General William Ekman, 54, a bayonet-hard combat officer who led parachute assaults during World War II and was an original leader of the Green Berets. Though he has never previously grappled with civil rights or the law, Missouri-born Ekman (West Point, '38) knows how to face down segregationist landlords. "He looks on his new job as another battle," says a friend...
...areas, thanks largely to shortages of shells and missiles. This has been reflected by a decline in the ratio of U.S. planes lost to sorties flown. Further, there has been a drop in the number of bomb loads that had to be jettisoned by U.S. flyers in order to combat pursuing MIGs, now considerably less in evidence. > In the South, Viet Cong strength is dropping. Recruitment, once thought to be adding 7,000 men per month to guerrilla ranks, is now estimated to be running at only 3,500. One result has been a decline in terrorist incidents from...
...west, Gio Linh is the merest outstretched fingertip of the U.S. presence in Viet Nam, an isolated and vulnerable outpost less than two miles from the Demilitarized Zone. It lies in a no man's land that has become the bitterest battleground of the war, an arena of combat unique in Viet Nam for its rigors and relentlessness...
...sent a wistful note to the Senator: "Can Ethel make cookies?" Bango! Back across the Pacific came an enormous box of cookies. Bingo! Off went another note, this time to the White House: "Can Lady Bird make cookies?" They're waiting, and so's the whole 269th Combat Aviation Battalion...
Like neighboring Viet Nam, Thailand has been waging a long, lacerating war against Communist guerrillas. To combat some 1,800 terrorists operating in the country's 15 Northeastern provinces, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn's government has sent 15,000 troops and civilian volunteers into the area. But last week it was the Thai security police who struck at the very power center of the insurgency. In a predawn roundup, they arrested 33 of the country's top Communist leaders, including twelve Central Committee members of the outlawed Communist Party of Thailand...