Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desperation & Deterioration. In fact, the level of violence on both sides has risen steadily since the talks began. A week before the negotiators met in Paris, the U.S. command in Saigon issued a directive urging field officers to go "all out" to hit the enemy. The Communists, similarly, stepped up their attacks and increased the rate of infiltration; U.S. reconnaissance pilots (see THE WORLD) report sighting 100-truck convoys in areas of Laos and North Viet Nam's southern panhandle where ten trucks once constituted a big catch...
Despite the intensified fighting. General William Westmoreland, who will yield his command of U.S. forces in Viet Nam next month to become Army Chief of Staff, offered a characteristically optimistic assessment of the war during a visit to the L.B.J. Ranch. The enemy "seems to be approaching a point of desecration," he told the President, and his forces "are deteriorating in strength and quality." Though hard fighting looms in northernmost I Corps, the Central Highlands and around Saigon, added Westy, "time is on our side." That, clearly, is what Hanoi believes-about its side...
...will never again place enough members in the National Assembly to form a working majority. If the present Assembly were dissolved at any time soon, the feeling at the moment among most French politicians is that the so-called combined left?Communists plus Mitterrand's assortment of Socialists-would command a solid majority in which the Communist ratio would be higher than it is now. At present, it is 73 Reds v. 121 Socialists. As a result, Communist leverage in a regime of the left would be considerable. In the event of popular-front government, Mitterrand looms as the most...
...Gaulle kept Britain out of Europe, did his annoying best to thwart the U.S., meddled in Quebec and increasingly behaved like a cantankerous old man. There is a little of Napoleon in every French breast, and the nation took a certain pride in De Gaulle's ability to command far more attention for France than its power and resources deserved...
Died. Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 86, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor during the devastating Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart attack; in Groton, Conn. In a military investigation following the Pearl Harbor debacle, Kimmel and his Army counterpart, Lieut. General Walter C. Short, were charged with "unpreparedness" in allowing themselves to be caught so totally by surprise. Both were relieved of command after which they quickly retired from service. To his dying day, Kimmel believed that he was the scapegoat of an F.D.R. maneuver "to get the U.S. into...