Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last you have exploded the myth that Israel is interested in making peace with the Arabs. When will you explode the second myth, that "Israel is more than a match for all the Arab forces combined"? Why doesn't she prove this by going to fight now? After all, it has become clear to the world that Nasser has "brazenly" challenged her to do so. This should be her chance, for wouldn't a total defeat inflicted on the Egyptians mean a welcome end to her troubles? Why is she hesitating? Or will she this time create still...
...caliber M-14. "I could troubleshoot an M-16 much faster than I could an M-14," says Lieut. Colonel Henry Miller, chief of Army heavy maintenance in Saigon. Many Marines in the battle above Khe Sanh had been issued their M-16s only a few days before the fight, and were probably unfamiliar with the weapon's demands: constant lubrication, thorough wire-brush reaming of the barrel to prevent leading, "fire discipline" that limits bursts to two or three rounds at a crack...
...attempt to reduce the Guard and Reserve faces a fight; opposition to the latest proposal began building up even before the official announcement. But Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has succeeded in making some beneficial cuts in the past and shows no inclination to give up, despite the militia's status as a political totem...
...committed to pacification that the Marines became known as "Walt's Peace Corps." While assault units like the 1st (Airmobile) Cavalry rode their helicopters to major set-piece battles against big Communist forces in unpopulated areas, Walt's outnumbered Marines, for the most part, had to fight mile by mile, hamlet by hamlet...
...Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive," says Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol. "Hopeful ever of redemption, we labored to return to the land of our fathers and to set foundations for the resurgence of an exiled folk. We made our arduous way to the shores of that land. We fought to open its gates to our brethren. We acted from an instinct to save the soul of a people...