Word: destroyed
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...professor of international relations at Howard University who has known Viet Nam since 1953, Fall says-correctly-that a U.S. bombing raid to destroy Viet Minh antiaircraft batteries ringing Dienbienphu was strongly favored at the time by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford. In fact, U.S. military planners considered both conventional and nuclear bombing attacks and warned the Administration that, if the nation intervened, the Air Force should be free to use whatever weapons were needed; no decision on this was made. Fall writes that planning...
...from which to launch an attack on an earthly enemy, now seems beyond consideration as a rocket base. Any lunar-launched missile would take far longer (16 hours) to reach its target than its earth-based counterpart. It would be harder to guide, easier to detect, and simpler to destroy. Which is one big reason behind Russia's willingness to sign an outer-space treaty, renouncing territorial rights or bases on the moon...
...first produces a teacher or a medical technician." Moreover, the villagers themselves must participate. If the villagers put three or four months of their own sweat into a project, the Marines figure, they will take better care of it and fight any Viet Cong attempts to take over or destroy...
...dissent was unusually bitter. Condemning the "blunderbuss fashion" in which the majority acted, Justice Tom Clark blazed that "no court has ever reached out so far to destroy so much with so little." The argument of vagueness is flimsy, he continued, since the language of Feinberg "obviously springs from" such federal statutes as the Smith Act, which the court has previously upheld. He added that the decision's wording is so broad that henceforth no state will feel safe in making loyalty requirements. "The majority has swept away one of our most precious rights- the right of self-preservation...
Schlesinger also argues that the U.S. should devote its resources more to "clear-and-hold" operations aimed at creating secure areas, than to "search-and-destroy missions, which drive the Viet Cong out of villages one day and permit them to slip back the next." But he fails to note that no clear-and-hold strategy can succeed as long as guerrillas are permitted to terrorize the countryside-and it is the search-and-destroy sweeps that keep them...