Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manpower would be used to reinforce the thinly spread U.S. fighting forces in Viet Nam was uncertain. Members of both the House and Senate Armed Services committees predicted that Johnson would raise the present 525,000-man ceiling on U.S. troops there by 50,000 to 100,000, or extend the current Viet Nam tour of duty (currently twelve months for soldiers, 13 for Marines), or both...
...Trucial States since Britain decided to pull back its 6,000 troops and its two Hawker Hunter jet squadrons from the Persian Gulf by 1971. Arab nationalists in South Yemen have vowed to oust the sheiks, and the Egyptians, Saudi Arabians, Iraqis and Iranians are also out to extend their influence in the Gulf. Result: the Trucial sheiks are scurrying around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging the federation to include the five...
Next weekend, the Crimson cagers will get a chance to extend their winning streak with games against Brown and Yale...
...President's request that the Joint Chiefs of Staff put the ability to defend Khe Sanh in writing [Feb. 9] may begin a new concept and set new precedents. He could extend this policy to the State Department, where there is a great need to separate fact from fantasy about the political realities in Viet Nam. If it were put into writing and signed, we would be more inclined to believe it. It took a newspaper editorial to convince Virginia about Santa Claus...
...Graduate Students: The National Security Council advises that: it is not essential for the maintenance of the national health, safety and interest, to extend student deferments for graduate studies to fields other than medicine, dentistry, and the allied medical services, where deferments are now required by selective service regulations...