Word: combats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam veterans recalled their service with the Saigon press corps. For as the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam grew over the years, so did TIME'S. By now, our bureaus all over the world are staffed with men who have put in tours as combat correspondents; TIME casualties included one dead and seven wounded...
...Paris a year ago; when nothing happened, the results were skepticism and indifference. Then word reached the men of the U.S. 9th Infantry and 3rd Marine Divisions that some of them would be among the first 25,000 to be replaced by Vietnamese troops. Green second lieutenants and combat-toughened veterans ran through their unit areas, shouting and weeping for joy at the realization that, for them at least, the war would soon be over. "It's wonderful," said Specialist 4/C Charles M. Greene, 22, of Chicago, who was due for rotation in three days anyway. "I'm just sorry...
Urgent Change. Rogers indicated that the Administration fully expects the South Vietnamese to begin taking over some of the combat burden borne by U.S. troops. "I have no doubt that the government of South Viet Nam is moving in this direction," he said. "They are willing to take over more of the responsibility." As Nixon met with Thieu last weekend, the urgency of that change was inescapable...
...expected in November, when Sato visits Washington. Reversion will probably come in 1972. The U.S. is prepared to agree to remove all nuclear weapons and its force of 20 B-52 bombers from the island. In addition, Washington is expected to consent to prior consultation with Japan before launching combat operations against any other Asian nation from Okinawa bases. This agreement, satisfactory to Tokyo, would allow continued U.S. military operations on the island, but under the same restrictions now imposed on the 148 U.S. bases in Japan itself...
...Faculty committee that had been studying the basic problems of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for more than a year released its report. The committee, chaired by Robert L. Wolff, recommended that the GSAS cut its enrollment by 20 per cent over the next six years to combat the school's "unwieldy and impersonal" size. The report also suggested pay raises for teaching fellows, a plan of long-term financial aid to grad students, and creation of a student center as part of an effort to improve sagging student morale at the GSAS...