Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LANE ROGERS, 36, a lean, dry-humored U.S. Marine Corps regular, has been in Viet Nam for 10½ months as adviser to a Vietnamese marine batallion. He has no command capacity whatever. All he can do os offer suggestions when and if they are solicited by his Vietnamese "counterpart." To perform effectively, the adviser must earn the trust and friendship of his Vietnamese opposite number- a process that often takes weeks, and sometimes is never achieved. Whenever an American adviser tries to force his views on a Vietnamese commander, he is in for trouble. Thus one overzealous adviser...
Next day, as the march continued, Rogers tagged at the heels of the Vietnamese commander. Finally the unit ran into Viet Cong fire while moving along a river bank. Then Rogers' counterpart turned to him with a question: "What about some air?" Rogers agreed, and while his counterpart radioed for Vietnamese-flown Skyraiders, Rogers called in American-flown helicopters. "Then," recalls Rogers, "I asked the commander which he wanted to carry out the strike. He said both, and I had to explain that you couldn't have Skyraiders and choppers going in over the target at the same...
...rest of the committee, recognizing a good publicity gag when they saw one, decided to capitalize on Hope's fame. So since Miss Seela is unavailable, her Radcliffe counterpart, a girl with her spirit, will add her class to the goings on April 30 through...
Petulant Performance. As a reprisal against the proceedings, the Red air circus was a petulant and ineffectual performance. So was its counterpart on the ground, where the Communists tied up traffic for nine days on the autobahns linking West Berlin with West Germany. Civilian and allied military cars were stalled in lines up to 15 miles long, as the Communists pretended to hold military "exercises" in the area. As soon as the Bundestag session was over, the Reds stopped their harassing flights and ended the exercises...
Dangerous as the U.S. motorist may be to himself and others, he can take some consolation from the fact that his European counterpart is worse. The United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe recently reported that there are twice as many fatalities per miles driven in Europe as there are in the U.S. In 1963, 80,000 Europeans were killed on the road; with twice as much traffic, the U.S. had only 43,400 highway deaths. Concluded the commission: "For the most part, these differences can only be explained by better driving by the people who use the roads...