Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national borders, Westmoreland is convinced that it is a worthwhile handicap. When the enemy forces do succeed in entering South Viet Nam, he points out, they disrupt the local population, strengthen guerrilla activities, and become harder than ever to root out. It is far better, in his view, to fight the main-force units in the comparative emptiness of the frontier areas, where civilians are not endangered and the full might of U.S. firepower can be employed. Besides, if Cambodia does not soon police its own borders, U.S. commanders may some day be allowed to chase the North Vietnamese right...
When Barth Royer and Chris Gallagher started to fight off the backboards Monday night, Harvard began the counter-surge which fell only five points short at the final buzzer...
...country--for good. But there are still some who clutch on to a dim hope. They are embittered by the "betrayal" of the United States government, which, they feel, failed to deliver on pledges to help them "liberate" their homeland. A bewildering multitude of organizations sit in Miami and fight among themselves, fiercely pursuing the sterile intrigues of exiles...
There are sharp limits to the geographic extent of Chinese military power. China simply does not have the industrial base to fight the kind of war the Japanese fought a quarter century ago, when they destroyed our naval power and defeated Western armies some 3000 miles from their own home bases.... Because of our great mobility by air and sea and China's poor transport capacity even by land, the United States is strategically much closer to parts of East and South Asia than is China. It is for these reasons that any attempt by China to conquer and hold...
...still trying to get his best five together. He's experimented all year, and he seems to have narrowed it down to about nine possibilities. Mickey Norlander has apparently joined captain Bob Beller, Bob Johnson, and Jeff Grate for the battle for the starting backcourt slots, and the fight for positions up front is just as tight...