Word: commands
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...announced last night that the University will proceed with every means at its command in disciplinary action against every person who can be identified as disrupting the meeting-possibly including at least one member of the Faculty...
...credibility of the optimistic official Pentagon and White House assessment of the Laos campaign received a jolt yesterday when the U. S. Command in Saigon quietly revealed that nearly half of the Saigon troops sent into Laos are now dead, wounded or missing in action. The figure was twice that given by the official South Vietnamese spokesman...
...Command also revealed that it believes Saigon's estimates of North Vietnamese troops killed by U. S. air action in Laos to be nearly four times higher than the actual figure. Saigon officials had been claiming that U. S. planes and helicopter gunships flying in support of ARVN troops had killed some 14,000 rebel troops in Laos. President Nixon had been emphasizing the importance of these North Vietnamese "losses" in recent statements, and Joseph Alsop, the ever-obliging hawk columnist, went so far as to treat his readers of two days ago to a lurid description of how some...
...same enthusiasm that Americans once fought the Vietnamese. And the Laos campaign, which tested the very best troops that the Saigon regime could muster, has demonstrated that the Saigon troops just can't or won't fight effectively. Thus the whole Vietnamization strategy may be disintegrating. The U. S. Command in Saigon evidently thinks so: its revelation of yesterday's disastrous casualty figures appears to have been intended to created pressure on Nixon to slow the withdrawal of U. S. troops from Vietnam...
...helicopter forces, under increased attack from North Vietnamese gunners inside Laos, began yesterday to pull out of their command post at Khe Sanh near the Laotian border...