Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Security Council soberly discussed what could be done to defend the two countries, just what troops and what weapons would be needed in case the U.S. had to move into the area to defend it against Communist attack. A serious proposition was that South Viet Nam and Thai land might be invited to ask for U.S. help on the ground that they are threatened by outside forces, allowing the U.S. to send in troops to beef up the national armies. The problem of sending U.S. forces into South Viet Nam "is a matter still under consideration," admitted President Kennedy last...
...boys are furious. War, real grownup war at last, not five kilometers away, and here they sit like schoolboys playing bang-you're-dead at the edge of their own home town. They dig in to defend the bridge, and suddenly the Americans are upon them. The last hour of the film is pure Schreck, a minutely observed, almost unwatchable massacre of the innocents...
...system struck back last week. Having obtained the names of a few students who planned to study for exams, the Department of Buildings and Grounds moved swiftly: teams of painters were dispatched to the students' bathrooms. Despite piteous scenes as undergraduates, enfeebled by days of reading period, tried to defend their commodes, work began...
Voice of the Church. The Portuguese authorities have ordered white settlers out of large portions of the Congo province because of lack of enough troops to defend them. The army, aided by Portuguese farmer vigilante groups, has arrested and often shot suspects by the score in other areas. When arrested African Angolans spoke up in their own defense, complaining of the lack of civil rights and freedom of speech, military courts slapped extra charges on them for insulting the state. Portuguese planes bombed and strafed whole villages in revenge for the murders of white men, women and children. "They kill...
Adenauer got no clear-cut explanation of Kennedy Administration plans for NATO defense. But Kennedy did assure Adenauer of the U.S.'s continuing readiness to use nuclear weapons, if necessary, to defend West Germany and the other NATO nations against a Russian attack...