Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...column of South Vietnamese tanks that abandoned a firebase 12 miles inside Laos was reported fleeing eastward towards the border with North Vietnamese tanks in hot pursuit...
...combined Thai-Laotian force from Savannakhet, near the western border of the panhandle, was to have moved eastward along Route 9 to Muong Phine, another major junction and site of the main enemy supply caches. That force is only halfway to its destination and bucking heavy resistance...
Meanwhile, Kissinger and company decided to move another aircraft carrier, Saratoga, into the eastern Mediterranean to join Independence, which had sailed eastward after the hijackings occurred. A group of C-130 transport planes was flown from Europe into Turkey. An airborne brigade had already been placed on semi-alert in Germany. At a later meeting, the group proposed moving a third carrier, John F. Kennedy, into the Med, and ordering the helicopter carrier Guam and its Marine landing team to leave North Carolina for scheduled NATO maneuvers in the Mediterranean a day early. Each move, as the Administration anticipated...
Withering Campaign. The Israelis are worried about an Egyptian-Soviet buildup across the canal for very specific military reasons. The firing range of the SAM missiles they claim were emplaced after the cease-fire began extends eastward over the canal, giving the Egyptians and their Soviet advisers theoretical control of the air over some Israeli-held territory. Without air cover, the Bar-Lev Line along the east bank of the Suez is vulnerable to amphibious attack from the Egyptian side. The Israelis still believe that they could knock out an Egyptian offensive, but they reckon on far higher casualties than...
...ensuing cold war have obscured the fact that the two countries have often been engaged in a fruitful exchange of ideas and talents. Each country possesses values, riches and skills that the other needs and envies. Whenever Germany has felt confined by its frontiers, it has looked eastward to exercise its talents. Since the 18th century, backward Russia has repeatedly attempted to use Germany as the instrument for catching up with the rest of Europe. In the process, Germany and Russia have alternated between phases of fondest love and deepest hate. Observes the emigre Russian historian Victor Frank: "No other...