Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company commander radioed battalion headquarters that he had been jumped by a company of North Vietnamese regulars. It was nothing that he could not handle, he said. But he was dangerously mistaken. Facing his 100 leathernecks were some 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and they were primed for a fight. "Those people had brand new field telephones, new gas masks, pressed uniforms and shiny weapons," explained a division operations officer later...
...number of hard-core Viet Cong fighters should be scaled down somewhat from the present figure of 65,000 and that the roster of local guerrillas should be reduced slightly from the current 120,000 total. No matter what the numbers, though, the enemy still shows a willingness to fight-at least when he has managed to concentrate a superior number of troops against his American and South Vietnamese opponents...
...public schoolteacher is fed up with his longtime pose as a professional too polite to hit the streets in a fight for a reasonable wage. This year he is proving as tough in the pursuit of a buck as the school electrician and plumber, who have long outpaced him in pay. The U.S. taxpayer is sick of soaring school costs. The conflict between these viewpoints has created one of the most strife-ridden school openings in years. This week nearly 2,000,000 schoolchildren from Baltimore to East St. Louis, Ill., face the possibility of extended summer vacations because...
...worst of these nonstrikes closed all classes in the 300,000-student Detroit system. There, Mrs. Mary Ellen Riordan, an old-style, fiery unionist who is president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, led her 6,400 members in a fight for a $1,200 pay hike and a two-week cut in the 40-week school year. The city, which pays teachers from $5,800 to $10,000, offered $600 and a one-week school-year reduction. Governor George Romney ruled out any increase in state funds to boost salaries and insisted it was "intolerable that the education...
Nothing doing. Joining Republic almost immediately, U.S. Steel pointed out that it, too, was "very mindful" of the inflation problem, especially the way that higher costs plus an automatic 3% rise in employee payments Aug. 1 were squeezing earnings. Other producers followed, and the Administration did not press its fight. At 1.8%, the bar price rise was small indeed. But the industry is now on notice to be wary of taking the rumored next step: a boost in sheet and strip steel, which as a key auto-industry item would be certain to have wide impact...