Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam. They talk about everything from the breechblock of the M-16 (prone to jam) to the accessibility of fresh eggs for artillerymen on the DMZ. Mostly they talk strategy and political ramifications. Thanks to instant communication by satellite, President Johnson can, if need be, keep in direct touch-through existing chains of command-with both Ambassador Bunker and General Westmoreland. The President boasts that he has satellite-relayed strike photos of North Vietnamese targets within minutes of their emergence from the developing fluids. "Hell," he says, "F.D.R. would have waited a week" for similar results. That speed...
...armed propaganda teams enter a village to "protect" it after advance men have sounded out the villagers' grievances. Whatever the complaints?whether they deal with a corrupt headman or a lack of land reform?the Viet Cong move in and offer redress where they can. Their methods are direct: shoot the corrupt chief, redistribute the land...
...quality of witnesses wasn't high to begin with," one of his aides said after Kowalewski appeared, "and it's retrogressed since." As if to underline the approach it intends to take, the Senate at week's end rejected 36 to 26 a motion that would direct McClellan's own in vestigation to delve into social and economic factors behind the riots...
...bombs rained down last week on a hitherto inviolate target: the one-mile Long Bien Bridge. Less than two miles from downtown Hanoi, the French-built bridge carries all the rail and road traffic between the North Vietnamese capital and China. U.S. Thunderchief and Phantom fighter-bombers scored four direct hits on the steel structure, sent a 300-ft. center span-splashing into the Red River. Elsewhere over the North, Air Force fighter-bombers pounded rail yards, and Navy pilots shot down...
...later the combined expedition from Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago and Barbados expects to sail to Anguilla and restore the authority of St. Kitts' Premier, Robert Bradshaw, whose highhanded rule helped trigger the revolt. If it does, warned Anguilla's new President, Ronald Webster, it will be a "direct challenge...