Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McNamara's request, the Joint Chiefs of Staff last winter began studying the problems of an air-ground merger, gave their enthusiastic approval in a 1¼-in.-thick document stamped top secret. On other projects, the Joint Chiefs have made McNamara and President Kennedy fume with shoddy staff work, but this time their study held up under criticism, was put into effect with few changes...
...guerrillas can be found inside as well as outside the Trung Lap camp. One night, a Viet Cong tossed a grenade into a platoon barracks, killing one Ranger and wounding five. A captured Viet Cong document states matters clearly: "One U.S. instructor dead is worth two Vietnamese majors. One U.S. major is worth two Vietnamese generals...
...translations of French verse won critical acclaim, he combined the resourcefulness of a diplomat with the vision of a poet. His vision, the philosophy of international cooperation which inspired his many expeditions of mediation and reconciliation, including his fatal mission to the Congo, found its fullest expression in the document which turned out to be his final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from Africa, Mr. Hammarskjold contrasted two concepts of the authority and function of the United Nations. Some members, he said, regard...
...also announced that Western foreign ministers will meet in Washington on Sept. 14 for talks leading toward West-East negotiations over Berlin. Preparing legal ground for a future stand, the U.S. last week produced a 14-year-old document in which the Soviet Union indirectly acknowledged the right of unrestricted Allied flights to Berlin...
From a world-worn valise stashed with his Manhattan publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, came the last will and testament of Novelist Ernest Hemingway. Handwritten by Hemingway at his Cuban ranch six years ago, the onionskin document left his entire unevaluated estate (including the manuscripts of A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls which will probably wind up at Harvard) to his fourth wife. "I repose complete confidence in my beloved wife Mary," it continued, "to provide for [my three children by previous marriages] according to written instructions I have given her." Literary style...