Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Thai Communist Suppression Operations Command (CSOC) has submitted a long-term suppression program for the south to the Thai National Security Council. Lt.-Gen. Saiyud Kerdpol, head of CSOC's coordinating center, explained that the increasing complexity of the southern guerrilla movement necessitated a two-pronged attack-one to immediately crush the rebels by military means and a second to "win the hearts and minds of the people...
Crewcut, clear-eyed and firm of jaw, Colonel Gerald V. Kehrli had been a model Air Force officer for 28 years. In May 1970, he took command of a less-than-spirited air transport squadron at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase, and before long the unit was back at a peak of morale. "It was guys like Colonel Kehrli who gave you that go-go spirit," one of his former officers said last week. "He was the kind of man you really wanted to work...
...scene since the mid-1960s, when canny Vietnamese (who prefer to chew betel nuts or smoke opium themselves) began cultivating the growing military market. Last-fall a Pentagon investigating team returned from Viet Nam with a report that drugs had become a serious "military problem." Last month the U.S. command in Saigon announced an all-out campaign against narcotics, complete with a 64-page directive and plans for ground and aerial searches for fields where marijuana is grown. Military surveys taken over the past two years have shown that from 30% to 45% of the troops in Viet Nam have...
Sources near the Laotian panhandle reported yesterday that the South Vietnamese military command is dispatching 16,000 troops to Laos to bolster Allied forces already engaging North Vietnamese units...
...abstraction for Mailer; now he is bearing witness to its most impressive achievement and is forced to alter his understanding of America. He feels a large contempt for the counterculture, "an army of outrageously spoiled children who cooked with piss and vomit while the Wasps were quietly moving from command of the world to command of the moon." He is not sure whether the astronauts are the "last of the old or the first of the new men," but he is certain that the American spirit is moving into new territories of unknown quality while the New Left totalists...