Word: echeloned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater, reviewed the already prepared top-secret folders and quickly made the decision on which troops to start pulling out of Viet Nam. The two 9th Infantry brigades and the Marine regimental combat team include roughly 17,000 men. They will be joined by about another 8,000 rear-echelon and naval personnel. The total number of American servicemen in the country will go down by less that 5%?but U.S. ground combat strength will be reduced by nearly...
...Rose. In official statements, Rio police have frequently and vociferously denied that they have anything to do with the killings; they claim that warring gangs are to blame. Last week, however, a TIME correspondent reported that several lower-and middle-echelon police officers have admitted to him that death squads are indeed manned by off-duty cops. They claim that the majority of hoodlum killings are disguised gangland slayings, but they concede that many are summary police executions. According to one informant, who was a charter member, the first squad was organized in 1958. It was a tightly knit group...
...Hitler and liberated Europe in World War II. Eighteen heads of state or chiefs of government were on hand, as well as a score of foreign ministers. Among the major Western allies only Britain, a country with special ties to Eisenhower, did not send a delegation of the highest echelon. Lord Mountbatten, leader of the British contingent, was outranked by most other delegates, but had a special place at the rites as an old comrade-in-arms of Ike's. Perhaps the warmest expression of affection came from France's Charles de Gaulle, another wartime colleague and friend...
...details of the capture of his ship U.S.S. Pueblo and the eleven-month ordeal that he and his crew endured while they were prisoners of the North Koreans. The tale he told was one of almost unbelievable hardship and endurance, and it left unanswered many troubling questions about higher-echelon complacency and shortsightedness in the U.S. Navy...
Valachi's career coincides with the rise of the Cosa Nostra itself and reads like a kind of how-to-succeed manual for middle-echelon mobsters. At 18, Valachi was already a veteran "wheelman" (getaway driver), but he made the mistake of joining an "Irish gang." That move so displeased the Italian underworld that while Valachi was serving time for theft, he received as chastisement a knife wound that ran under his heart and around to his back, requiring 38 stitches...