Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam, more effective use of aircraft often seems the obvious answer. But the supersonic jet is too swift for efficient coordination with jungle-bound ground troops, the helicopter sometimes too slow and vulnerable. Now U.S. Navy officials believe they have found a potential solution in COIN (for counter-insurgency), a "flying squad...
...counter the plastiqueurs of Leopoldville, Adoula imposed a 6 p.m. curfew, and now each day when the sun sets over the Congo River, Leo is transformed into a ghost town. Adoula also closed his border with the neighboring Brazzaville Congo, where the Peking-backed Congolese National Liberation Committee has its Western headquarters. Formed by politicians loyal to the late Patrice Lumumba and imprisoned Antoine Gizenga, the rebel group is determined to carve up Adoula's tottering nation. Last week, in bucolic, mountainous Kivu province, where the Congo borders Rwanda and Burundi, the rebels were well on their...
...Force C-130 with armored cars and reinforcements. For the moment, the pygmoid threat to Bukavu seemed to have diminished. But the Congolese soldiers were taking no chances against mai Mulele: their witch doctors told them to wrap grass around their gun barrels in order to counter the magic water of the Bafulero...
...individual investors-the biggest initial distribution in history. A few customers managed to get 50 shares, but most had to be content with ten or fewer. An IBM computer system printed and registered the entire issue, saving 25,000 man-hours of work. Sales were over the counter, with regular trading on the New York, Midwest and Pacific Coast stock exchanges expected to begin in July. The market held fairly firm-Comsat closed the week at $21.62-and the company was drawing attention in some surprising places. Next week Chairman Welch will fly to Geneva to negotiate with Russian officials...
...then he'll come over. Mike Mansfield comes around a lot too. The other day, I accused George Smothers of stealing. He said, 'Not only that, I can prove it,' and he pulled two pieces from his pocket." The end of Anderson's free-candy counter for deserving Democrats may be in sight: licorice manufacturers, happily sniffing publicity, have started to ship in complimentary goodies...