Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies...
...prospective army attack. Said a U.S. officer drily: "Whatever the Viet Cong are, they're not dumb. When the attack was launched, they had all decamped." Among the most important lessons learned and urgently taught to the Vietnamese: abandon the "blockhouse mentality," in which static troops defend only themselves; give up moving in large units and in big "sweeps." which accomplish nothing in the Vietnamese terrain; develop "quicker reaction time," i.e., hit back faster. The U.S. effort is aimed at helping the Vietnamese to do this themselves...
...vessels will remain under U.S. admirals, with U.S. crews, but the move should bolster confidence in the U.S. readiness to defend Europe...
...warned him not to expect any help from Venezuela's peasants: "The pressure for the government to Cubanize itself has taken the path of violence, terrorism, dynamiting and armed action. Those guerrillas have failed because guerrillas without peasants are like bread mush without bread. The peasants of Venezuela defend this regime because they helped organize it with their votes. We cannot become simple pawns in a world conspiracy moved about by Nikita Khrushchev through the hands of Fidel Castro. It is a lost, thwarted, crushed...
Double Reckoning. Some economists argue that the Government could make a better case for itself if it quit trying to defend its fiscal policies on the basis of the "administrative budget"-the accounting method under which the U.S. Government traditionally explains its financial position to Congress and the public. They say that the Government's real impact on the economy is more accurately revealed by something called the "national income" system of accounting-an alternate method of budget reckoning that the Administration first published as a supplement to the regular budget review last November...