Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perhaps if every kid eligible to die in Southeast Asia put the heat on good ol' Mom and Dad, the middle-aged block of ice could be thawed a little. Even though Abraham was determined to carry out God's command and knife his own son to death, I don't think most parents would share the same degree of devotion. The concept of Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public telling their son to go risk his life in a war situation (a situation few parents could adequately explain) because Nixon says so seems absurd...
...enforce a seven-month-old agreement under which the guerrillas are forbidden to carry arms in Lebanese villages or to fire into Israel from Lebanese territory. Even that decision was watered down. The government decided that any commando who can prove himself a member of the Palestine Armed Struggle Command, the guerrillas' central organization, will be allowed to carry arms. Since this includes almost everybody, the order is meaningless...
...allies have inflicted severe losses on the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. In barely three weeks of fighting, according to the Saigon command, the Communists have suffered 8,541 killed out of an original force of 40,000 men in Cambodia (v. 191 U.S. and 508 South Vietnamese dead). Of course, estimates of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties could turn out to be grossly inflated; if they were even close to correct, however, they would represent a serious manpower loss of 20%. The survivors seemed to be retreating into three widely separated areas...
...Cambodia's broad flatlands, ARVN commanders could wage a conventional, European-style war of maneuver, using textbook tactics that the Communists chose not to test in determined combat. Only four days after Nine Dragons began, ARVN General Ngo Dzu's armored columns had effortlessly swept light Viet Cong forces from the towns of Takeo and Kompong Trach and the key ports of Kep and Kampot. Equally facile was ARVN Task Force 318's high-speed dash 75 miles down Highway 1 toward Phnom-Penh. TIME Correspondent John Mulliken joined General Tri as he directed the drive alternately...
...Using borrowed money, he paid too much for the company. He bought control for $85 a share, and since then J & L stock has plummeted to $12.75. There was little that Ling could do to stop the slide. A federal antitrust suit barred him from exercising his command...