Word: creighton
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...Lieut. General William B. Rosson, 49. Rosson will have battle command of all actions in the two provinces, but will report to Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., the Marines' commander in Viet Nam. The Marines had been riled by Westy's dispatch of Army General Creighton W. Abrams Jr. last month to run things in I Corps-since his four stars would have put him over the Marines. Westmoreland hopes that his compromise will satisfy everyone...
...sharpen coordination between the 55,000 U.S. combat soldiers and Marines counterpoised for the enemy offensive in the I Corps Area, General Westmoreland last week dispatched his deputy commander and likely successor in Viet Nam, General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams Jr., to Phu Bai to set up a forward command post. Known as "the fightin'est man" in the U.S. Army, the World War II armored-cavalry commander, a West Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When...
...whose members, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, was appointed last month as Westmoreland's deputy and likely successor...
During a speech in Nashville last month, Lyndon Johnson promised to send to Viet Nam more topflight military leaders, "the best that this country has been able to produce." Delivering on that pledge the President last week announced the assignment to Saigon of General Creighton Abrams Jr., a World War II hero who is rated the ruggedest combat commander in the U.S. Army. He will become No. 2 man to General William Westmoreland, commander of all U.S. forces in South Viet...
Unclear Process. In reporting en the two outbreaks before the New York Academy of Sciences last week, Dr. Morin and Dr. James Sullivan of Oma ha's Creighton University still hesitated to blame cobalt absolutely. The heart-muscle damage was indeed characteristic of the poisoning effects of cobalt buildup. But none of the victims had actually consumed enough cobalt to poison a normal person. The doctors theorized that the patients' alcoholic habits had in some way lessened their systems' ability to handle the added chemical...