Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Deborah Kerr, a widowed Red Cross volunteer, and William Hoiden, a tough Marine commander with no use for do-gooders, fight their own wartime battle on Guadalcanal in The Proud and the Profane (1956). Repeat...
...Hussein offered no alibis, made no excuses, used no intemperate language. He is privately disgusted at the postwar performance of his fellow Arabs: their invective, their whining-they considered it unfair of Israel to have used pilots who spoke Arabic to confuse their foes-and their wild threats to fight again tomorrow. "It is apparent," said Hussein, "that we have not yet learned well enough how to use the weapons of modern warfare...
...Told to "fight a clean fight" and avoid atrocities,, Gowon's troops, at least 15,000 strong, launched a four-pronged attack. His small collection of English-made Ferret and Saladin armored vehicles pushed toward the Biafra capital of Enugu and the provincial centers of Nsukka and Ogoja. Large numbers of federal troops, which the government said were "moving cross-country on their flat feet," reportedly overran an Eastern military camp and captured 500 recruits. Determined Biafrans, whose army of about 7,000 is largely composed of Ibo tribesmen, claimed to have thrown Gowon's men back into...
...course, has the resources in firepower and men to defeat any Communist force anywhere in Viet Nam that is willing to stand and fight for any length of time. But, true to Mao's manual of guerrilla warfare, the enemy is fighting for the most part only when he chooses and with a willingness to take heavy losses to undermine U.S. patience in the war. (One North Vietnamese defector along the DMZ claimed that his job was to dig graves for a third of his unit before it went into battle against the Marines...
...ballot. It is uncertain whether the charter requires the City Council to place on the ballot a statement directed at a national issue, outsode the pervue of local government. The canvassers people expect the council to try to disqualify the petition "on technicalities," and they are preparing to fight the matter out in court...